The Silent Councillor, from "The Portfolio"

Leopold Löwenstam|Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema|Seeley & Co.

1878 · Etching · Drawings and Prints

A Roman youth lies on a marble bench and speaks to a sculpture of a sphinx, the sea represented in the distance. The print was published in “The Portfolio, An Artistic Periodical...,” edited by Philip Gilbert Hamerton, that often included articles about artists and actively promoted printmaking.

Artist

Leopold Löwenstam|Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema|Seeley & Co.

Date

1878

Medium

Etching

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Gift of Edith P. Blase, 1944