- Artist
- Harold Speed 1872–1957
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 635 × 914 mm
frame: 930 × 1220 × 140 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1905
- Reference
- N01964
Catalogue entry
N01964 THE ALCANTARA, TOLEDO, BY MOONLIGHT 1894
Inscr. ‘.Harold. Speed. 1894.’ b.r.
Canvas, 25×36 (64×91·5).
Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1905.
Exh:
Summer Exhibition, New Gallery, 1905 (202).
Repr: Art Journal, 1905, p.183.
The Alcantara is a famous bridge over the Tagus. Another painting of this subject, ‘The Great Arch of the Alcantara, Toledo’, was shown at the Leicester Galleries, February–March 1907 (6).
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II
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