ECL-Bm.9:50-2013
Parts
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
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
plinth
relief
Content (note)
This is described as a painting but resembles a relief(?)
Dimensions
height (actual size): 158mm
width (actual size): 204mm
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 )
