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Object number

ECL-Bn.7:1-2013

Object type

Identification

Title

Mosaic: Group of Philosophers

Title Type

assigned by cataloguer

Other number

Ashby ETON IV 1

Description

Content (description)

Mosaic : Group of Philosophers. Very fragmented. Central purple figure, faces left. Serpent wrapped around figure on right, only partially visible.

Content (object)

mosaic

Content (note)



Dimensions

height (actual size): 503mm
width (actual size): 376mm

Dimension note

Ashby gives the dimensions as 19 x 26
The actual painting on the page measures 199mm x 268mm

Inscription

Musaico del Sig. S. Marchese de' Cavalieri. written in ink on the front of the painting







Materials & techniques note

watercolour on paper

Production

Date

c.1710-1730

History and association

Previous ownership

References

• Ashby (p.37 Ny Carlsberg 391 )
• Engelmann (Eng. T. xv. 5 (Capp. 284. 90) see also Eng. p. xxvii. Fig. 10 (where this drawing is reproduced) and Cors. 9, 127 (Eng. T. i. 4, xi. 6))
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