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Hôtel de Ville, Place des Terreaux, Lyons

Robert Smirke · 1845

Robert Smirke: British, 1752 - 1845

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Hôtel de Ville, Place des Terreaux, Lyons

1845

pen and brown ink with gray wash over graphite on wove paper · National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

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Medium
pen and brown ink with gray wash over graphite on wove paper
Dimensions
overall: 26.5 x 17.9 cm (10 7/16 x 7 1/16 in.)
Collection no.
1995.52.167
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Robert Smirke. Hôtel de Ville, Place des Terreaux, Lyons. Robert Smirke; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Robert_Smirke,_H%C3%B4tel_de_Ville,_Place_des_Terreaux,_Lyons,_1845,_NGA_76153.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: National Gallery of Art

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Hôtel de Ville, Place des Terreaux, Lyons — Robert Smirke. 1845.

Medium: pen and brown ink with gray wash over graphite on wove paper.

Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall: 26.5 x 17.9 cm (10 7/16 x 7 1/16 in.).

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1995.52.167. Gift of William B. O'Neal.

Museum holding does not establish current display.

Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.

Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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Robert Smirke. Hôtel de Ville, Place des Terreaux, Lyons. Robert Smirke; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Robert_Smirke,_H%C3%B4tel_de_Ville,_Place_des_Terreaux,_Lyons,_1845,_NGA_76153.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.