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ECL-Bn.6:2-2013

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Object number

ECL-Bn.6:2-2013

Object type

Identification

Title

Mosaic Pavement (?)

Title Type

assigned by cataloguer

Other number

Ashby ETON III No. 2(m)

Description

Content (description)

In central square, with concave sides, a female sits on a rock with drapery over her legs, and a bunch of flowers in her uplifted right hand, towards which a little child outstretches his hands. The rest is black and white with single figures in the corner circles closely resembling those in Bn. 7 No. 39. There are black masks with anthemium style necks around the central panel and baskets of fruit inside the border below them. Chequered border.

Content (object)

mosaic

Content (note)



Dimensions

height (actual size): 369mm
width (actual size): 350mm

Dimension note

Ashby gives the dimensions as 287 square
The actual drawing on the page measures 299mm x 298mm

Inscription

Bartoli Villa Hadriani written in ink on the back of the drawing



Materials & techniques note

watercolour on paper

Production

Date

c.1710-1730

History and association

Previous ownership

References

• Ashby (p.30 Plate XV)
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