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FDA-D.1021-2014

Parts

Object number

FDA-D.1021-2014

Object type

Identification

Title

St. Peter's Basilica
Parrocel

Title Type

assigned by cataloguer
collection

Comments

See Collection Record FDA-D.970-2014

Other number

52

Description

Content (place)

Rome

Content (note)

View of St. Peter's from the Salita di Monte Mario

Dimensions

height (actual size): 265mm
width (actual size): 415mm

Inscription

Inscribed in ink '52' in lower right corner, on paper mount
Inscribed in ink in another hand 'veduta di St. Pietro dallo Salita di Mont Mario / nomero octo'
Inscribed in pencil on paper mount in another hand 'From the Salita di Monte Mario'

Materials & techniques note

Black-and-white chalk on buff paper, mounted on sheets with a double grey wash border
Watermark of a saint kneeling 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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