About this artwork
-
artist:Richard Cooper (1740 - 1814) Scottish
-
title:The Pyramid of Caius Cestius and the Tomb of Jacob More in Rome
-
date created:Dated 1801
-
materials:Pen, brown ink and wash over pencil, on paper
-
measurements:23.90 x 28.90 cm
-
object type:
-
credit line:Oliver van Oss Bequest 1993
-
accession number:D 5350
-
gallery:
Does this text contain inaccurate information or language that you feel we should improve or change? Tell us what you think.
Richard Cooper
Richard Cooper
Born in Edinburgh, Cooper was apprenticed to his father, the artist Richard Cooper, the Elder (1701 – 1764) and trained as a reproductive engraver. He is best known for his landscape drawings and his copy drawings after paintings by the old masters. He spent much of the 1760s and 1770s on an...