The tiles on the floor of this painting are incorrect. The artist Brocktorff often made sketches and studies on site, and finished his work back at his studio. The tiles on the floor of the real Co-Cathedral Church in Valletta are laid in a perpendicular diamond pattern, rather than the chequerboard arrangement in the painting.
Watercolour painting of an ornate interior space in church with walls and ceilings decorated with intricate carvings and paintings in bright colours of gold, brown and red.
Vella, Theresa. Charles Frederick de Brocktorff: Watercolours of Malta at the National Library, Valletta – Volume II. National Library of Malta, 2008. Pages 205 - 207
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Gift of Lieutenant Colonel C. de Windt Crookshank, 1943