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FDA-D.1037-2014

Parts

Object number

FDA-D.1037-2014

Object type

Identification

Title

Temple of Peace, Roman Forum
Parrocel

Title Type

assigned by cataloguer
collection

Comments

See Collection Record FDA-D.970-2014

Other number

68

Description

Content (place)

Rome

Content (note)

View of the Temple of Peace. Also identified as the Temple of Antonius

Dimensions

height (actual size): 267mm
width (actual size): 419mm

Inscription

Inscribed in ink '68' in the lower right corner, on paper mount
Inscribed in ink in another hand 'Tempio della Pace nel Campo Vacino', and in another hand 'no quaranta otto'
Inscribed in pencil in another hand on paper mount 'Temple of Antonius'

Materials & techniques note

Black-and-white chalk on buff paper, mounted on a sheet 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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