Mountainous landscape with travellers (Scene on the river Pellene Achaia)
Hugh William Williams British
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Williams was dubbed "Grecian Williams" after travelling to Greece in 1816 and, two years later, publishing an influential description of his journey. Here, he used sepia ink and wash to show a group of men climbing a steep river gorge in Achaia, a region in the northwest Peloponnese. While the artist may have experienced the rugged terrain personally, topographical accuracy was not his primary concern. Instead, he placed the explorers within a romantically conceived landscape framed by wind-tossed trees.
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