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ECL-Bn.8:12-2013

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Object number

ECL-Bn.8:12-2013

Object type

Identification

Title

Wall Painting: Group of figures: an Audience(?)

Title Type

assigned by cataloguer

Comments


Other number

Ashby ETON V. 12 (xii)

Description

Content (description)

Female seated figure on a chair in the centre with ornate headdress, she holds a disk on her left knee. Two trees and three female attendants behind her: a man in a plumed helmet, cloak and greaves, approaches her from the right, and behind him are two women: to the left a man holding a spear hurries away, and a woman points to the left. Behind, to the left is a wall.

Content (object)

mural/wall painting

Content (note)



Dimensions

height (actual size): 233mm
width (actual size): 330mm

Dimension note

Ashby gives the dimensions as 179 x 265
The actual painting on the page measures 200mm x 286mm

Inscription

XII written in ink on the front, in centre, below the red frame
Bartoli Disegno trouato nel Monte Palatino 1721 No. 12 written in ink on the back of the painting
Ashby says the 1721 has been added.

Materials & techniques note

Pencil, pen and watercolour on paper

Production

Date

c.1710-1730

History and association

Previous ownership

References

• Ashby (p.51)
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