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FDA-D.999-2014

Parts

Object number

FDA-D.999-2014

Object type

Identification

Title

Palazzo Sacchetti
Parrocel

Title Type

assigned by cataloguer
collection

Comments

See Collection Record FDA-D.970-2014

Other number

30

Description

Content (place)

Rome

Content (note)

View of the Palazzo Sacchetti in via Guilia

Dimensions

height (actual size): 268mm
width (actual size): 418mm

Inscription

Inscribed in ink '30' in lower right corner, on mount
Inscribed in ink in another hand 'Palazzo Sachetti', and in another hand 'no Ventiquatro'
Insribed in pencil in another hand on the mount 'Palazzo Sacchetti / (San Gallo + Paul III)', 'In Via Giulia'

Materials & techniques note

Black-and-white chalk on buff paper, mounted on sheets with a double brown and grey wash border

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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