ECL-Bn.4:18-2013
Parts
Object number
ECL-Bn.4:18-2013
Object type
Identification
Title
Painting in the Vigna Moroni
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Other number
Ashby ETON I No. 18
Description
Content (description)
Painting in vigna Moroni.
Wall of a columbarium: a door with a brick arch in the centre: on each side of it a niche for urns, and above it three more niches with two urns in each. Above it is a frieze, showing a landscape, with a man sitting fishing in the centre. The design has some elements in common with Bn 5. 12 but is different from them. In the right background is a small temple with a column at each angle: on the left is a column with an urn upon it, then a temple with four columns nad a statue in the entrance, and to the left a circular shrine with two cypresses behind it.
Wall of a columbarium: a door with a brick arch in the centre: on each side of it a niche for urns, and above it three more niches with two urns in each. Above it is a frieze, showing a landscape, with a man sitting fishing in the centre. The design has some elements in common with Bn 5. 12 but is different from them. In the right background is a small temple with a column at each angle: on the left is a column with an urn upon it, then a temple with four columns nad a statue in the entrance, and to the left a circular shrine with two cypresses behind it.
Content (object)
mural/wall painting
tomb
tomb
Content (note)
The Vigna Moroni is situated on the right of the Via Appia, between the Church of S.Cesareo and the Porta S. Sebastiano, opposite the Tomb of the Scipiones. A very large number of tombs (mostly columbaria) have been found there:Ficoroni excavated no fewer than ninety-two and others were discovered in 1790.
Dimensions
height (actual size): 345mm
width (actual size): 234mm
width (actual size): 234mm
Dimension note
In Ashby's catalogue the dimension is given as 167 x 137 (no measurement unit)
The wall in the drawing measures 170mm x 140mm
The wall in the drawing measures 170mm x 140mm
Inscription
Nella Vigna Moroni
written in ink beneath the drawing, lower right
written in ink beneath the drawing, lower right
Materials & techniques note
watercolour on paper
Production
Person
Unknown (Artist)
Date
c.1710-1730
History and association
Previous ownership
References
• Ashby (p.8 and 9)