ECL-Bm.13:54-2013
Parts
Object number
ECL-Bm.13:54-2013
Object type
Identification
Title
Bust : emperor
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Comments
There is no indication of the location of this piece. Only Fa 4 attributes them all to the collection of the Grand Duke of Tuscany.
Description
Content (description)
The bust of an emperor with short thick goitrous neck, and hair thinning on top but brought forward at the sides. He wears a corselet with a sword belt (?) hanging diagonally from his right shoulder and a cloak arranged beneath a brooch on his left shoulder. Between the bust and the pedestal is a panel with the inscription VITELLIUS. The bust is viewed obliquely from right.
Content (object)
bust
lid
lid
Dimensions
height (actual size): 368mm
width (actual size): 255mm
width (actual size): 255mm
Materials & techniques note
black lead pencil on grey paper with white highlights
Production
Person
Unknown (Artist)
Date
c.1710-1730
History and association
Previous ownership
References
• Mansuelli (II ; no. 180)
