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ECL-Bn.7:37-2013

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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.

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

Dimension note

Ashby gives the dimensions as 124 x 297
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

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))
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