The arts of industry as applied to peace – (George Morton; After Lord Frederic Leighton) ◄ Previous Next ►

Artist: George Morton; After Lord Frederic Leighton

Date: 1886

Size: 59 x 107 cm

Museum: Art Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia)

Technique: Watercolour

This watercolour by George Morton is an evocation of the importance of the applied arts in classical Greece during peacetime. Fashionable Athenian women try on jewellery, while a group of men unloads a rolled carpet from a boat. Another group examines pots and other ceramics. The watercolour