FDA-D.970-2014

Object number

FDA-D.970-2014

Object type

drawing

Title

Views in Rome
Parrocel

Title Type

collection

Description

2 volumes of Stefano Parrocel's 'Views in Rome', removed from their 18th century bindings, mounted, and stored in solander boxes. Includes 219 drawings, hand written index for Folio I, mounted, and handwritten index for Folio II, mounted, and labels and binding spine from the volumes mounted together

Comments

See Collection Record FDA-D.970-2014

Inscription

Many of the drawings are inscribed in ink on the drawing itself, probably by Peachy, and in pencil on the mount by Baddeley

Materials & techniques note

All the drawings are in black-and-white chalk on buff paper, mounted on sheets with a double grey wash border

Person

Parrocel, Etienne, 1696 - 1775 (Artist)

Date

Before 1740

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