Frequently asked questions
Which size should I choose?
This work is available in 30 × 40 cm, 50 × 70 cm, 70 × 100 cm. As a guide: 30 × 40 cm (about 12 × 16 in) for shelves, corners or gallery walls; 50 × 70 cm (about 20 × 28 in) above a dresser, a headboard or a desk; 70 × 100 cm (about 28 × 39 in) as the centrepiece of a living room or the wall above the sofa. Below the buy buttons you can see it to scale above a 2-metre sofa.
Does it come framed?
The print arrives unframed with a white border, ready to frame. If you choose a black or oak frame, it arrives mounted behind acrylic glazing, ready to hang. Canvases come stretched on a wooden frame.
When will it arrive?
Printed to order at the lab closest to your address. It arrives in 4–8 working days in Spain and the EU, and in 6–12 working days in the US, Mexico and other destinations.
What if it arrives damaged?
Email us a photo within 30 days of delivery and we will send you a new one free of charge or refund you.
Can I send it as a gift?
Yes. At checkout you can write a gift message and ship it to the recipient's name and address. The parcel shows no prices.
About the work
- Artist
- Thomas Cole
- Date
- 1840
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Collection
- Toledo Museum of Art (Toledo, Ohio)
- Print up to
- 70 × 100 cm
- Reference
- XDV-3991
What the museum label doesn't tell you
Those green curtains aren't decoration, they're a stage curtain. Cole puts you in a theater box, as if architecture itself were a performance about to begin. And there, reclining on a column in the foreground, is the architect himself, watching his own invention unfold: an Egyptian pyramid in the distance, a Gothic spire on the left, Greek and Roman temples arranging themselves toward us like architectural history compressed into a single view. Ithiel Town, who commissioned the painting, rejected it for being 'almost exclusively architectural.' But that's exactly what makes it work: not a landscape with buildings, but a theory of architecture disguised as a dream. Isn't a painting more honest when it admits to being a fantasy rather than pretending to be real?
