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Title
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The Bay of Mentone
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Actual Title
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Bordighera (alt)
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Artist
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George Howard
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First Exhibited Date
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1867
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Type
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Watercolor
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Size (HxW, mm)
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755 x 1143
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First Exhibited Location
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Grosvenor Gallery
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Current Exhibition Location
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Tate Britain, London
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Lent By
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Rev. Stopford A. Brooke
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Catalog Number
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9
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Catalog Page
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3
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Catalog Description
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The southern slopes of the maritime Alps are sheltered in winter. The storm-torn pines in the picture make a frame-work through which to look on the olive-clad palins below. The Queen stayed at Mentone two years ago.
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Curators Notes
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Probably not painting referred to in the catalog but similar to the description re place and composition. Painting entitled "Bordighera" and exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery in 1882 as "Path Under the Olives, Bordighera."
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Alt-Text
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Two women in traditional clothing gather herbs on a hillside path lined with pine trees, overlooking a green valley and distant mountains by the sea under a partly cloudy sky.
