TitleItalian Landscape
Artist
Thomas Hicks
(1823 - 1890)
Date[1847-1848]
MediumOil on paper mounted on composition board
DimensionsUnframed: 15 × 21 in.
Framed: 19 × 25 1/8 × 2 3/8 in.
SignedSigned at lower center: "T. Hicks"
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY, Bequest of James A. Suydam, 1865
Object number570-P
Label TextThomas Hicks completed this rare landscape, unusual because Hicks was predominantly a portraitist, while traveling through Europe as a student. This romantic rendering of Italy's scenic ruins must have reminded Suydam of his own creative efforts while on the Grand Tour earlier in the decade and of the appeal that such sites of antiquity held for him.
