FDA-D.1086-2015
Parts
Object number
FDA-D.1086-2015
Object type
Identification
Title
Nymphaeum, once thought to be the Temple of Minerva Medica
Parrocel
Parrocel
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
collection
collection
Comments
See Collection Record FDA-D.970-2014
Other number
117
Description
Content (place)
Rome
Content (note)
View of a nymphaeum near the Porta Maggiore
Dimensions
height (actual size): 261mm
width (actual size): 410mm
width (actual size): 410mm
Inscription
Inscribed in ink 'Vedouta del tempio di Venere vicino a porta Magiura / no trenta'
Numbered in ink in another hand lower right corner on paper mount '117'
Inscribed in pencil in annother hand on paper mount 'So called Minerva Medica. / (Nymphaeum dicianum)'
Numbered in ink in another hand lower right corner on paper mount '117'
Inscribed in pencil in annother hand on paper mount 'So called Minerva Medica. / (Nymphaeum dicianum)'
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'
Watermark of a saint kneeling in a cartouche and watermark 'J Whatman'
Production
Person
Parrocel, Etienne, 1696 - 1775 (Artist)
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
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
• 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
