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- Title:
Mount Athos and the Monastery of Stavronikétes
- Date:
- 1857
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 13 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches (34.3 x 54.6 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed in monogram in lower left: "EL"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.415
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1981.25.415FR
- Subject Terms:
- bay (body of water) | castle | cliffs | landscape | men | mountain | trees | walking-sticks
- Associated Places:
- Greece | Macedonia | Mount Athos | Áthos
- Access:
- Not on view
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:900
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