ECL-TP.3-2012
Parts
Object number
ECL-TP.3-2012
Object type
Identification
Title
An Ancient Picture: Wall on Mount Palatine
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Content (description)
Large wall with upright scene in centre and oblong scene at each side-all relating to sacrifice at rural shrines. The right-hand scene (with an eagle descending towards the altar)
Content (object)
mural/wall painting
Content (note)
In Thomas Ashby's 1914 Eton Catalogue: ' An Ancient Picture found 1724 in the Farnesian Gardens on Mount Palatine'
Dimensions
height (actual size): 603mm
width (actual size): 1073mm
width (actual size): 1073mm
Inscription
Written in ink below image: No: III
Materials & techniques note
Watercolour on paper now backed on to canvas
Production
Person
Unknown (Artist)
Date
c.1710-1730
History and association
Previous ownership
References
• Turnbull (Egger, Krit Verz. Wien i.p.37 No. 112 (cf. p. 45, Fig.14))
