Hand Colored Engraving by Brockedon / Arundel: View of Thyatira in Turkey

Tall palms shade a tent where a small party lounges above a rolling plain

This hand colored engraving is from England, United Kingdom, and is dated 1836. It is ink on paper. Thomas Allom, an architect and founding member of what became the Royal Institute of British Architects, illustrated books on China in the 1840s without ever making the trip there himself. Delicately tinted, a landscape of a dark tent and reclining figures in the foreground, with three tall palms and green trees at right. Soft hills stretch off to a gray-blue sky. It is 9 inches wide and 6 high.

A picnic with an enormous view and no deadlines.