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ECL-Bn.9:43-2013

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Object number

ECL-Bn.9:43-2013

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Identification

Title

Relief: comedy scene

Title Type

assigned by cataloguer

Comments

Fa 4 records this as 'an antient painting of a scene in Terence' but then after 43 and 44 remarks 'NB. I know not whether the two last were taken from painting or carving'

Other number

Fa 4. no. 43

Description

Content (description)

On right in front of a curtain, which hangs in front of a wall, are two figures, apparently revellers, accompanied by the music of a double flute, played by a small figure in the centre. On left are two old men, one with a thyrsos, in front of an elaborately decorated doorway.

Content (object)

relief

Content (note)



Dimensions

height (actual size): 270mm
width (actual size): 411mm

Inscription

written in pencil on the back of the mount: 64-y

Materials & techniques note

pen and brown ink and brown wash on paper

Production

Person

Unknown (Artist)

Date

c.1710-1730

History and association

Previous ownership

References

• Schreiber, Villa Ludovisi (pl. 83)
• Ruesch (no. 575)
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