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FDA-D.1002-2014

Parts

Object number

FDA-D.1002-2014

Object type

Identification

Title

San Giovanni dei Fiorentini
Parrocel

Title Type

assigned by cataloguer
collection

Comments

See Collection Record FDA-D.970-2014

Other number

33

Description

Content (place)

Rome

Content (note)

View of the church of San Giovanni dei Fiorentini

Dimensions

height (actual size): 400mm
width (actual size): 266mm

Inscription

Inscribed in ink '33' in upper right corner, on mount
Inscribed in ink in another hand 'no nuove', and in another hand 'San Giovanni dei Fiorentini sul Tevere'

Materials & techniques note

Black-and-white chalk on buff paper, mounted on sheets with a double grey wash border
Watermark of kneeling saint in a cartouche, and watermark 'J Whatman'

Production

Date

Before 1740

History and association

Previous ownership

Baddeley, Welbore St. Clair, 1856 - 1945: Bequested to Eton College in 1945
Hare, Augustus: Possibly owned by Augustus Hare, Rome
Peachey, John (2nd Baron Selsey), 1749 - 1816: J. Peachey purchased the drawings from W. Locke after his return from the Grand Tour in 1777
Locke, William: W. Locke purchased the drawings in Rome in 1750

References

• Ingamells, J., A Dictionary of British and Irish Travellers in Italy 1701-1800, New Haven and London, 1997 (p. 750)
• Quarrie, P., Treasures of Eton College Library: 550 years of collecting, exhibition catalogue, Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 1990 (pp.110-111)
• Connor, L., A Set of Chalk Vedute by Etienne Parrocel, Eton Collections Review no.3, pp.50-55
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