George Edwards Hering British, 1805-1879

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Description

George Edwards Hering
evening in greece, cape colonna
oil on canvas
73.5 by 130cm., 29 by 51 1/4 in.

Exhibited

London, The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, 1858, no. 537, as Evening in Greece--ruined temple, Cape Colonna

Catalogue Note

"Those columns stand on Sunium's airy steep;
They reared aloft Minerva's guardian shrine,
Beneath them rolls the blue Egean deep,
And the Greek pilot hails them as divine!"
(George Edwards Hering)