ECL-Bn.6:51-2013
Parts
Object number
ECL-Bn.6:51-2013
Object type
Identification
Title
Mosaic: Elephant fighting against a bull
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Other number
Ashby ETON III 51
Description
Content (description)
Mosaic (but no tesselation). Elephant fighting against a bull: to right a man on a camel leads a lion.
Content (object)
mosaic
Content (note)
Dimensions
height (actual size): 419mm
width (actual size): 527mm
width (actual size): 527mm
Dimension note
Ashby gives the dimensions as 190 x 475
The actual painting on the page measures 224mm x 508mm
The actual painting on the page measures 224mm x 508mm
Inscription
E templo Dianae in Monte Aventino hodie written in ink on the front of the painting
4 written in ink on the front, lower left.
4 written in ink on the front, lower left.
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.37 See other drawings of same set Bn 7. 34-38. They are all coloured, whereas the mosaics are in black and white.)
• Engelmann (Eng. T. xii. 6 (Cors. 145) 'Anno MDCCXI in horto S. Sabinae Montis Aventini; nunc in Vaticanis aedibus. )
• Michaelis (Holk.i. 46)
• Lanciani (189)
• Nogara (Mosaici Ant. T. xx. I and p. 6)
• Engelmann (Eng. T. xii. 6 (Cors. 145) 'Anno MDCCXI in horto S. Sabinae Montis Aventini; nunc in Vaticanis aedibus. )
• Michaelis (Holk.i. 46)
• Lanciani (189)
• Nogara (Mosaici Ant. T. xx. I and p. 6)