Autumn (Scene in a Roman Garden)

A wide horizontal graphite drawing of a classical garden. Robed figures rest on a long marble bench with an inscribed frieze, and a statue on a pedestal rises behind among bare trees. A figure in a long robe walks along the right edge.

Look closer: A figure in a long robe walks among the trees at the right edge.

Artist

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema

Date

ca. 1874–79

Medium

Graphite

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

3726 × 1100 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Friends of Drawings and Prints Gifts and Ian Woodner Family Collection Fund, 2018