ECL-Bn.5:37-2013
Parts
Object number
ECL-Bn.5:37-2013
Object type
Identification
Title
Two Quadrigas to left
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Comments
Numbers Bn 5. 35-40 are numbered together on the front below the image: I - VI as a sequence
Ashby: 'Bn 5. 37-40 this group of drawings probably refers to a single pavement, which was discovered on the right of the Via Appia near Domine quo vadis in January 1720, according to Montfaucon(MS. Paris 1293, f. 158; cf. Bianchini, Cod. Veron. 348. ff. 71, 79, who gives the inscription of T. Flavius Posidonius seperately, as though it had been on a marble slab, C.I.L. vi. 18169, whereas it really belonged to a pavement)'
Ashby: 'Bn 5. 37-40 this group of drawings probably refers to a single pavement, which was discovered on the right of the Via Appia near Domine quo vadis in January 1720, according to Montfaucon(MS. Paris 1293, f. 158; cf. Bianchini, Cod. Veron. 348. ff. 71, 79, who gives the inscription of T. Flavius Posidonius seperately, as though it had been on a marble slab, C.I.L. vi. 18169, whereas it really belonged to a pavement)'
Other number
Ashby ETON II No.37 (iii)
Description
Content (description)
Two Quadrigas racing to left driven by one man each. The further quadriga has a yellow clad driver with raised whip.
Inscription: ALIS . I . XXI written top left (this corner of the mosaic is fractured)
No tesselation.
Inscription: ALIS . I . XXI written top left (this corner of the mosaic is fractured)
No tesselation.
Content (object)
mosaic
Content (note)
Ashby describes this as a 'pavement', therefore a mosaic.
Dimensions
height (actual size): 416mm
width (actual size): 273mm
width (actual size): 273mm
Dimension note
Ashby gives the dimensions as 181 x 192
The actual drawing on the page measures 195mm x 208mm
The actual drawing on the page measures 195mm x 208mm
Inscription
Bartoli Palazzo di Tito written in ink on the back of the drawing
III written in ink on the front, below the drawing
III written in ink on the front, below the drawing
Materials & techniques note
watercolour on paper
Production
Person
Bartoli, Francesco, 1675? - 1730? (Artist)
Date
c.1710-1730
History and association
Previous ownership
References
• Ashby (p. 22-23 See Ashby for extensive notes)
• Michaelis (Nett. 154a (Inv. 11400))
• Montfaucon (MS. Paris, 1293, f. 158 and Ant. expl. suppl. iii. Pl 67)
• Michaelis (Nett. 154a (Inv. 11400))
• Montfaucon (MS. Paris, 1293, f. 158 and Ant. expl. suppl. iii. Pl 67)