ECL-Bn.5:41/a-2013
Parts
Object number
ECL-Bn.5:41/a-2013
Object type
Identification
Title
Painting: A sacrifice
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Comments
Note: there were two Nos. Bn 5. 41, this is now Bn 5. 41a and the first, a Trojan horse, is Bn 5. 41.
Other number
Ashby ETON II No.41
Description
Content (description)
Painting. A sacrifice: to the left a female statue under a shrine crowned by two vases: then three female figures, one raising the lid of a cysta mystica, from which a serpent is seen issuing, then a column with a statue of Athena upon it: to the right of it are two females and a boy with a pedum: to the right again two more women, one with a pedum, the other with a basket on her head; and behind these is an architectural background.
Content (object)
painting
Content (note)
Dimensions
height (actual size): 289mm
width (actual size): 463mm
width (actual size): 463mm
Dimension note
Ashby gives the dimensions as 420 x 210
The actual drawing on the page measures 210mm x 412mm
The actual drawing on the page measures 210mm x 412mm
Inscription
Bartoli del Palazzo di Tito written in ink on the back of the drawing
T M written in red crayon on the front of the drawing lower right
T M written in red crayon on the front of the drawing lower right
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. 24 Plate XI See Ashby for notes)
• Engelmann (This is an amplified version of the scene which is given in Vitt 28a, 29b, 84 (Inv.9590, 2593 - an original sketch of Bartoli, with colour notes - 9662) : the last bears the legend Pittura antica trouata in una Vigna fra S. Pietro in Vincola e S. Martin de Monti)
• Engelmann (This is an amplified version of the scene which is given in Vitt 28a, 29b, 84 (Inv.9590, 2593 - an original sketch of Bartoli, with colour notes - 9662) : the last bears the legend Pittura antica trouata in una Vigna fra S. Pietro in Vincola e S. Martin de Monti)