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FDA-D.1089-2015

Parts

Object number

FDA-D.1089-2015

Object type

Identification

Title

Aqua Claudia
Parrocel

Title Type

assigned by cataloguer
collection

Comments

See Collection Record FDA-D.970-2014

Other number

120

Description

Content (place)

Rome

Content (note)

View of the Aqua Claudia, and the Villa Celimontana (formerly Villa Mattei)

Dimensions

height (actual size): 270mm
width (actual size): 412mm

Inscription

Inscribed in ink 'Rovine del Aqua Claudia alla Villa Mattei', and in another hand 'no dicidotto'
Numbered in ink in another hand lower right corner on paper mount '120'

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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