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ECL-Bm.9:7/1-2013

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Object number

ECL-Bm.9:7/1-2013

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Identification

Title

Relief: fighting scene and Aesculapius, Hermes and the Graces.

Title Type

assigned by cataloguer

Comments

Bm 9. 7.1 and 7.2 are catalogued together being drawings of the same relief

Description

Content (description)

7.1: fighting scene. On left two soldiers move right , one with a shield and flaming torch. A nude soldier stands with his back to the viewer, holding a spear and a shield. A female, wearing boots and a short tunic and carrying a torch, moves left towards him and points to left. On right a soldier, holding a sword and a shield, stands with his foot raised on shields piled on a dead body and threatens an enemy who sinks to the ground far right.
7.2: Hermes, holding his caduceus, stands on left behind a bearded man, who sits on a rock seat and gestures to a bearded figure, Aesculapius, on right. The god holds a club entwined with snakes on the ground. On right stand the three Graces.

Content (object)

relief

Dimensions

height (actual size): 312mm
width (actual size): 428mm

Inscription

In ye Pallace of Carraffa in Naples written in ink on the back of the drawing

Materials & techniques note

black lead pencil on paper

Production

Person

Unknown (Artist)

Date

c.1710-1730

History and association

Previous ownership

References

• Fuhrer (no.46)
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