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ECL-Bm.11:32-2013

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Object number

ECL-Bm.11:32-2013

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Identification

Title

Relief of base: Egyptian scene

Title Type

assigned by cataloguer

Comments

Was Fa 2 no. 44

Other number

Fa 3 Villa no. 44

Description

Content (description)

The reliefs are those of a round base but drawn as if flat. On left a draped female sits to right but turns to left. She holds a cornucopia of fruit and holds out ears of corn in her left hand. Beneath her right elbow is a sphinx on a rectangular base, perhaps part of her seat. There are waves beneath the base. A draped youth and a bull stand in the background on the right of the female, and a draped bearded male walks to right carrying reeds. A male wearing a skirt stands on a small shallow boat on waves, holding a burning candelabrum. In the centre a male in a skirt stands in the waves and bends to right, where two crocodiles rise out of the waves towards him at the foot of a high staircase. In the background behind the bending male stand two bearded males, one draped, one wearing a skirt and carrying a basket on his head. The staircase leads to a tetrastyle temple right of centre, set obliquely, with a nude crouching figure in the pediment. In front of the side wall are a sphinx on a low base and a statue of a bearded male. On right a bearded river god reclines, gesturing and gazing to left. He holds a reed and leans against a large reed plant. In the waves far right is a crocodile.

Content (object)

relief
plinth
statue
plinth

Dimensions

height (actual size): 490mm
width (actual size): 742mm

Inscription

Ciferri Villa Mattei No.44
written in ink on the back of the drawing

Inscription description

D no.44 written in pencil on the front of the drawing lower right

Materials & techniques note

red chalk on paper

Production

Person

Date

c.1710-1730

History and association

Previous ownership

References

• Fuhrer (no.529)
image 147426
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