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ECL-Bm.9:50-2013

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Object number

ECL-Bm.9:50-2013

Object type

Identification

Title

Painting: floral griffin and candelabrum

Title Type

assigned by cataloguer

Description

Content (description)

On left stands a candelabrum, the central member of which is a swan with its head lowered belligerently and its wings spread. It threatens a griffin, which stands facing it on right. The body of the griffin ends in a floral scroll.
Small black lead pencil sketches of a group of figures on the back of the double fold of the paper

Content (object)

painting
plinth
relief

Content (note)

This is described as a painting but resembles a relief(?)

Dimensions

height (actual size): 158mm
width (actual size): 204mm

Inscription

* a peice of Atique pain.t CXXV taken out of villa Adriano sopos'd to be done in ye year CXXV written on the front of the drawing

Materials & techniques note

pen and ink on paper

Production

Person

Unknown (Artist)

Date

c.1710-1730

History and association

Previous ownership

References

• Lanciani (Bcom 1894 p. 179 )
image 147201
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