Townsend Hungerford
b.1814, d.1859
Roman Amphitheatre and Aqueduct, Segovia
- 1842
- Watercolour
- Presented by Miss G Hungerford, 1958
- 437 x 566mm
- 69/311
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Location: Monica Richards Gallery
Tags: amphitheaters (built works), animals, aqueducts, arenas (sports buildings), buildings (structures), castles (fortifications), cathedrals (buildings), churches (buildings), horses (animals), landscapes (representations), mountains, people (agents), religious buildings, roads, theaters (buildings), trees, urban landscapes
Mumbai-born Townsend Hungerford was a skilled watercolourist who at sixteen entered a lifelong East India Company military service. Savouring occasional armchair travel, he based this view of Segovia, Spain with its early 1800s bullring and ancient Roman aqueduct on an illustration by Scottish artist David Roberts, published in London in 1837.
(Out of Time, 23 September 2023 – 28 April 2024)
Exhibition History
![Andreas Cellarius Hypothesis Ptolemaica Sive Communis Planetarum Motus Per Eccentricos Et Epicyclos Demonstrans [The Ptolemaic Hypothesis or Common Representation Demonstrating the Planetary Motions through Eccentrics and Epicycles] 1661. Hand-coloured engraving. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, William A. Sutton bequest, 2000](/media/cache/05/97/05970cdff0f6b3264062d69bf2aa90f5.jpg)
