ECL-TP.16-2012
Parts
Object number
ECL-TP.16-2012
Object type
Identification
Title
One side of a staircase (right)
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Content (description)
A painted staircase, the steps rising up to the left above an unpainted area with a blank doorway. Pale pink columns with narrow coloured bands divide up the different sections of the staircase. A lady seems to lean over a sill. Goats bottom right.
Content (object)
mural/wall painting
Content (note)
In Thomas Ashby's 1914 Eton Catalogue: 'Apparently this is the staircase behind the Lararium of the Flavian Palace on the Palatine, which is now entirely ruined, and was probably destroyed by the Farnese themselves'
Dimensions
height (actual size): 394mm
width (actual size): 710mm
width (actual size): 710mm
Inscription
Written in ink below image: No: XVI
Materials & techniques note
watercolour on paper now backed by canvas
Production
Person
Unknown (Artist)
Date
c.1710-1730
History and association
Previous ownership
References
• Coleraine (Hulsen)
