ECL-Bn.7:37-2013
Parts
Object number
ECL-Bn.7:37-2013
Object type
Identification
Title
Mosaic: Mounted man attacked by a bear (?)
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Comments
Bn 7. 34-38: All shown coloured as if they were paintings.
See also: Bn 6.51.
See also: Bn 6.51.
Other number
Ashby ETON IV 37
Description
Content (description)
Long panel on plain ground: To right man on horseback, whose horse is on its knees, being attacked by a bear (? same animal as Bn 7. 36) from behind, which is biting the horse's hind quarters. The animal is being speared by a man from the left: most of the man is obscured by the fragmented state of the mosaic.
Content (object)
mosaic
Content (note)
Dimensions
height (actual size): 284mm
width (actual size): 408mm
width (actual size): 408mm
Dimension note
Ashby gives the dimensions as 124 x 297
The actual painting on the page measures 162mm x 334mm
The actual painting on the page measures 162mm x 334mm
Inscription
Franc. co. Bartoli Musaico Antico trouato nelle Monte Aventino il disegnio e/ appresso a Nostro Sig.re written in ink on the front of the painting
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.40 Plate XVII)
• Nogara (not in Nogara, apparently lost (according to Ashby))
• Engelmann (Not in Cors, apparently lost (according to Ashby))
• Nogara (not in Nogara, apparently lost (according to Ashby))
• Engelmann (Not in Cors, apparently lost (according to Ashby))