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ECL-Bn.8:41-2013

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Object number

ECL-Bn.8:41-2013

Object type

Identification

Title

Wall Painting: Bacchic dance

Title Type

assigned by cataloguer

Comments

NB changes to the numbering system

Other number

Ashby ETON V. 41 (xxxxiv)

Description

Content (description)

Bacchic dance: To right a male figure with thyrsus going to right: then a youth and three Maenads dancing (one holding a cylinder with bands across it at intervals). To left a female figure dancing.

Content (object)

mural/wall painting

Content (note)

See Bn 8.. 5, 20 and 35 for the cylindrical object

Dimensions

height (actual size): 257mm
width (actual size): 395mm

Dimension note

Ashby gives the dimensions as 167 x 343
The actual painting on the page measures 194mm x 366mm

Inscription

XXXXIV written in ink on the front, in centre, below the red frame
Fr. Bartoli Disegno trouato nel Monte Palatino 1721 No.44 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.55)
image 148146
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