WILLIAM STANLEY HASELTINE | MT. ETNA FROM TAORMINA

WILLIAM STANLEY HASELTINE
1835 - 1900
MT. ETNA FROM TAORMINA

signed W. S. Haseltine (lower right)
oil on canvas
58 ½ by 41 inches
(148.6 by 104.1 cm)

Condition Report:
The canvas is lined and the edges are partially trimmed. There is fine surface cracking, most noticeable in the sky, and some scattered accretions. Under UV: there is inpainting to frame abrasion at edges, some scattered dots in the lower register including a 3-inch horizontal line near the lower right corner, a 3-inch horizontal line in the center sky and two small areas near the upper left edge.

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Provenance:
Private collection, Pennsylvania

By descent to the present owner