- Object type
- Prints and Drawings
- Date
- 1800 - 1850
- Artist
- Charles Frederick de Brocktorff (1775 - 1850)
- Inscriptions
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recto: de Brocktorff delin
recto: View of the Palace
recto: Strada Reale N 104.
recto: N1.
- Dimensions
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Height x width (paper size): 238 x 347mm
Height x width x depth (framed size): 317 x 470 x 3mm - Materials and technique
- Watercolour on paper
- Production place
- Malta
- Related place(s)
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Grand Master's Palace
Valletta
Malta - References
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Vella, Theresa. Charles Frederick de Brocktorff: Watercolours of Malta at the National Library, Valletta – Volume II. National Library of Malta, 2008.
pp. 35, 41, 44-47, 124-125, 132-137 - Catalogue number
- 1009
View of the Palace
The Grand Master's Palace was one of the first buildings to be built in Valetta after the Knights moved over following the Great Siege of Malta. It started as a single house, and continued to be enlarged and developed by successive Grandmaster's.