ECL-Bn.9:4-2013
Parts
Object number
ECL-Bn.9:4-2013
Object type
Identification
Title
Mosaic Pavement: Rape of Europa
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Other number
Ashby ETON VII. 4
Description
Content (description)
Rape of Europa shown as two strips with five draped females and a man behind a rock in the upper layer, and the Bull and Europa in the lower layer.
Content (object)
mosaic
Content (note)
Dimensions
height (actual size): 529mm
width (actual size): 510mm
width (actual size): 510mm
Dimension note
Ashby gives the dimensions as 490 x 475
The actual painting on the page measures 487mm x 471mm
The actual painting on the page measures 487mm x 471mm
Inscription
Mosaico antico Palazzo Barberini, No. 138 written in ink on the back of the painting
Inscription description
Ashby: 'The numbers (ie No. 138) refer to an inventory lettered outside Palazzi di Roma, with the following title: Bassirilievi, Pitture Antiche, Gruppi, Statue, Busti, Vasi, Are, etc., in Diversi Palazzi di Roma. It forms an index to the great series of drawings of sculpture which Topham not only ordered to be made (cf. Lanciani, BUll. Com 1894, 165, who however did not see this volume) but is a complet inventory of the contents of the various collections, including the pieces which Topham did not feel it worthwhile to have copied; and it is thus a document of capital importance for the condition of these collections in the early eighteenth century. I hope before long to publish it in its entirety'
Materials & techniques note
watercolour on paper
Production
Person
Unknown (Artist)
Date
c.1710-1730
History and association
Previous ownership
References
• Ashby (p.61)
• Lanciani (Bull. Com. 1894, 182)
• Ciampini (Mon I. tav. xxxiii. p. 82)
• Bartoli (App. tav. xii. p. 95)
• Turnbull (8 (original 4 palms oncie by 4 palms 3 oncie))
• Jahn (no page ref)
• Lanciani (Bull. Com. 1894, 182)
• Ciampini (Mon I. tav. xxxiii. p. 82)
• Bartoli (App. tav. xii. p. 95)
• Turnbull (8 (original 4 palms oncie by 4 palms 3 oncie))
• Jahn (no page ref)
