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We have 21 objects tagged ruins.

Neapolitan landscape of a courtyard with walls and columns visible on three sides. Ruin of a building at center, with smaller structure at left and four figures.

Drawing, View of Naples (or vicinity), 19th century
brush and gouache on paper.
Gift of the Estate of Anne Duffy.
1971-44-95

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Panoramic paper depicting the coast of Villefranche in southeast France. The paper contains scenes of the harbor with ships, architectural ruins, figures, cows, goats and sheep. Printed in 8 warm shades of tan. A full set of 14 panels. "La Cote" requires 157 wood blocks to print in this colorway.

Scenic Paper, Les Côtes de Villefranche, 1930
block-printed paper.
Gift of Priscilla E. Muller.
2005-25-1-a/n

This object is part of the Wallcoverings collection.
There are 18 images of this object.

Vertical panel design with a pagoda motif, top center, an architectural ruin showing the capital of a column, an urn, a broken column, interspersed with garlands and leaves. In the central scene a young man is about to lay a wreath of flowers upon the head of a young woman who is reclining amongst bushes, leaves, and branches. Two putti appear below.

Print, Hommage Champètre (Pastorale), from Nouveaux morceaux pour des...
etching and engraving on white laid paper.
Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
1921-6-203-7

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Circular plate of grayish porcelain with blue band between two gilt lines around rim; gilt-bordered circular medallion in center with polychrome landscape of rock formation of arch.

Plate (Italy), ca. 1780
gilt and glazed porcelain.
Bequest of Erskine Hewitt.
1938-57-450-s

This object was made by Doccia Porcelain Manufactory.
This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Against a paper-backed, gold silk ground are printed simplified classical buildings and ruins, groups of warriors, figures in chariots, and on horseback, in a dark and light value of gray-green.

Sidewall, When in Rome, 1958
screen printed on silk.
Gift of Denst and Soderlund, Inc..
1959-130-1

This object was made by Denst and Soderland.
This object is part of the Wallcoverings collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Rectangular box, white enamel field; hinged lid showing polychrome scene (painted over sepia transfer) of a couple dressed in 18th-century garb in a garden with a ruin in the background; flowers painted on four sides and bottom; white interior.

Box (England), ca. 1775
copper, brass, enamel.
Bequest of Katherine Strong Welman.
1908-23-4

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 4 images of this object.

Circular drawing showing the interior of a great basilica, identified as St. Peter's in Rome by an inscription below the image. The view looks down the barrel vaulted nave toward the altar in the distance at left. Small figures are placed in the middle distance and foreground.

Drawing, Interior View of the Nave, Saint Peter's, Rome, Looking Toward the...
pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, green, brown watercolor on cream laid....
Joseph F. McCrindle Collection.
2008-34-1

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Study of grassy landscape with ruins of colonnade in mid-ground, looking to mountainous landscape, that is possibly separated by a body of water and shoreline. A small stand of dark, pyramidal trees is to the right of two single, free-standing columns. The columns are in the Corinthian order and likely once comprised the Temple of Olympian Zeus.

Drawing, Study of the ruins of the Temple of Olympian Zeus, January 24, 1878
brush and oil paint on thin paperboard, mounted on very thick paperboard.
Gifted by a Private New Hampshire Collector, courtesy of Sullivan Goss - An....
2013-59-1

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Recto: page divided into eight parts, from left to right: Palazzo Barberini shown from rear; view of seashore; two views of castle towns surrounded by mountains; all works by Martinelli. At bottom: six left halves of capitals. Verso: top: pitcher with handle on top; Dionysus represented on body. Two-handled vase; "1814" written on it. Pitcher with handle, shown sidewise. Center row: two-handled kraters. Bottom row: two-handled bottle. Vase with snakes as handles.

Drawing, View of the Palazzo Barberini; Six Landscapes by Vincenzo...
pen and bistre ink, brush and brown wash over traces of graphite on cream....
Museum purchase through gift of various donors.
1901-39-469

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

The lower parts of two bays and the separating columns of one long side are shown. Parts of the entablature and a capital lie in the foreground. The tan ground color is shown laterally and along the lower edge. In the upper left corner, mathematical figures and a small plan.

Drawing, Interior of the Temple of Bacchus, Baalbek, May 1868
brush and oil paint, graphite on cardboard.
Gift of Louis P. Church.
1917-4-581

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

depicting the temple in its semi-ruined state as visible in the 18th and early nineteenth centuries, showing the circular section building with columns ringing a central core, supporting an upper moulding

Temple of Vesta, Tivoli Architectural Model, 1810–30
pressed, carved, and cut cork with wood base.
Gift of Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw.
2014-39-2

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

The ruins are shown at right, the village in the left middle distance. The wall of the temple is rather well preserved at a corner, with pilasters formed by blocks projecting from it. A European woman is shown seated upon steps and reading. A native with a gun crouches in the central foreground.

Drawing, Temple with Semua [present day as-Samu] in the Distance, February...
graphite, brush and white gouache on gray paper.
Gift of Louis P. Church.
1917-4-459

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Waterside scene of women and musicians in front of ruins, aqueduct and windmill; verso: a seated woman with a young man in a landscape.

Fan Leaf, ca. 1760
brush and gouache on vellum .
Gift of Mrs. James O. Green.
1901-9-1

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Broken column sections scattered on grass in foreground with hills in the distance.

Painting, Broken Column, Parthenon, 1869
brush and oil paint, graphite on paperboard.
Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.
2018-36-1

There are 3 images and 1 video of this object.

Oil sketch of classical ruin. Foreground is filled with architectural fragments. Three Corinthian columns with entablature and fragment of another column stand upright. The upper parts of the columns are lit by the setting sun. An arch of the substructure and a seated Bedouin are shown in the right center of the foreground.

Drawing, Classical Ruins, Syria, May 1868
graphite, oil on academy board.
Gift of Louis P. Church.
1917-4-1081

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Six standing columns rise in the right center. Bottom margin showing the creamy grounding color.

Drawing, Ruins of the Temple of Zeus, Baalbek, May 1868
brush and oil, graphite on cardboard.
Gift of Louis P. Church.
1917-4-514

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

A view of northern peristyle shown from the west is framed dramatically by two high stone walls.

Drawing, North Peristyle of the Parthenon, Athens, 1869
brush and oil, graphite on thin board.
Gift of Louis P. Church.
1917-4-573-b

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

A statue with the figure of a woman is supported by a column, the lower part of which sticks in the earth in the center of the foreground. Earth is indicated in the right foreground, houses in the left. A cloud bank covers the lower part of the sky. Similar view to 1917-4-610-a.

Drawing, St. Peter's Basilica from the Pincio, Rome, late 1868 or early 1869
brush and oil, graphite on thin cream paperboard.
Gift of Louis P. Church.
1917-4-610-b

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Temple facade is shown flanked and surrounded by rocks. Blue sky is visible in the central and right top.

Drawing, Ed Deir Rock Temple, Petra, late February 1868
brush and oil, graphite on thick paper.
Gift of Louis P. Church.
1917-4-485-b

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

View of the entire façade with the flanking rocks. Architectural detail at left and capital details at right. Color notation throughout.

Drawing, Architectural Details of El Khasneh, Petra, late February 1868
graphite, brush and white gouache on cream paper.
Gift of Louis P. Church.
1917-4-486

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Obverse, left: rocks with caves and a pylon. Caption: "Petra".
Reverse: a part of the northwest rock wall with tombs and indistinct designs near the right edge. The indistinct designs are marked "2" and shown in detail. Inscribed: "silvery / gray". Top right: "Brown / & grey rocks / 2 grey mosses on gold brown color".
Bottom right: indication of the "North" direction.

Drawing, Sketches from Petra, Jordan, February 1868
pencil. creamy paper..
Gift of Louis P. Church.
1917-4-668

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.