Drawn to the Page

Caption:

The Temple of Minerva

Artist:

Goff, Robert Charles

Materials:

Paper (fiber material), Ink

Techniques:

Three colour process

Author:

Goff, Clarissa Catherine De Hochepied

Title of Publication:

Assisi of Saint Francis

Publisher:

Chatto and Windus

Publication place:

London

Publication date:

1908

Note on artwork:

The publication comprises a series of watercolour images created in situ by the artist Robert Goff whilst on his travels through the Tuscan region of Italy. The text, by the artist's wife Clarissa De Hochepied Goff, was to act as an accompaniment to the sketches with which this book is illustrated. The Temple of Minerva is an ancient Roman temple which was built in 1539 and renovated in Baroque style in the 17th century.

References:

Snoddy (2002); R K Engen, Dictionary of Victorian Engravers, Print Publishers and Their Works, 1979; articles in the Magazine of Art, January 1895, 102-4, and January 1904, 318-23.