ECL-Bm.8:92-2013
Parts
Object number
ECL-Bm.8:92-2013
Object type
Identification
Title
Sarcophagus: Prometheus
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Comments
Bm 8. 92 and 93 are catalogued together being drawings of the same Sarcophagus
Description
Content (description)
On left, Prometheus, seated to left, works on the figure of a man, while another stands ready at his feet. Athena, standing far left, stretches out her left arm and holds a butterfly over the head of the figure on Prometheus' knee. Her shield and owl are in the back ground beneath a tree, behind the second figure. In the upper background behind Prometheus, a female consults a globe on a pillar and one of the Fates holds her distaff. A half-draped female reclines on right of Prometheus, holding an enormous fruit-filled cornucopia with the help of two putti; by her elbow is a basket. At her feet Cupid and Psyche embrace. Above her a draped figure drives a quadriga to left, past a reclining bearded male who holds a rudder over his shoulder and leans on a sea-monster. On right, a fire burns in a rocky forge where three men wearing loin cloths swing their hammers to beat the metal on the anvil. A globular vessel stands on the ground by the anvil. A nude male peeps over the rock upper right into the forge. On far right Eve and Adam, standing on a rock, move to left from beneath a tree.
Content (object)
drawing
Content (note)
Villa Pamfilia
Dimensions
height (actual size): 313mm
width (actual size): 530mm
width (actual size): 530mm
Inscription
Domenico Campiglia Il sepolcro di Diadumeniano in Villa di Principe Pamfilio written in ink on the back of the drawing
Inscription description
O written in ink on the front of the drawing lower left
1 A written in ink on the front of the drawing lower right, truncated.
In the Album in which the drawings are held is written:
No. 92/No.93 1 A 2
1 A written in ink on the front of the drawing lower right, truncated.
In the Album in which the drawings are held is written:
No. 92/No.93 1 A 2
Materials & techniques note
black lead pencil on paper
Production
Person
Date
c.1710-1730
History and association
Previous ownership
References
• Rossi (no. 1257)
• Fuhrer (III ; 3 no. 355)
• ASR
• Fuhrer (III ; 3 no. 355)
• ASR
