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A Moorish Marketplace

Collection Type

  • Art

GUSN

GUSN-173658

Description

An oil painting of a moorish marketplace. A gold domed building stands at right. A tree stands at left. People and horses in front of carts along bottom of sene. Frame is carved wood with a recessed back and inner border, gold painted. Plaster leaves are gilded. The recessed middle border is gilded.

Details

Descriptive Terms

oil paintings (visual works)
oil paint (paint)
Painting

Inscription

"A. Pasini" (artusut's signature at bottom left)
"A. Pasini" (Name plate on center of bottom inner border of frame)

Associated Building

Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),

Additional Identification Number

P170
FA012

Maker

Pasini, Alberto, 1826-1899 (Artist)

Dimensions

24 10/16 x 21 11/16 x 4 12/16 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation

Accession Number

2006.44.593

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