FDA-D.1095-2015
Parts
Object number
FDA-D.1095-2015
Object type
Identification
Title
Temple of Hercules Victor and Temple of Portunus
Parrocel
Parrocel
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
collection
collection
Comments
See Collection Record FDA-D.970-2014
Other number
126
Description
Content (place)
Rome
Content (note)
View of the Temple of Hercules Victor, and its environs, including the Temple of Portunus (idenitifed in inscription as Temple of the Sun and Temple of Fortune)
Dimensions
height (actual size): 258mm
width (actual size): 413mm
width (actual size): 413mm
Inscription
Inscribed in ink 'Vedouta del Tempio del Sole / & del Tempio della fortuna / no. Venti quatro'
Numbered in ink in another hand lower right corner on paper mount '126'
Numbered in ink in another hand lower right corner on paper mount '126'
Materials & techniques note
Black-and-white chalk on buff paper, mounted on a sheet with a double brown 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
