FDA-P.166-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-P.166-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
View of Venice
Description
Painted aerial view of Venice
Description
Content (place)
Italy
Dimensions
height: 1921mm
width: 4225mm
width: 4225mm
Inscription
Signed, dated and inscribed lower sight edge 'opus odoarovus Fialettio 1611'
In chalk on upper stretcher member 'Eton College Hall'
In chalk on centre vertical and right (back) stretcher members 'Keep Clear Pictures'
In chalk on upper stretcher member 'Eton College Hall'
In chalk on centre vertical and right (back) stretcher members 'Keep Clear Pictures'
Materials & techniques note
Oil on joined canvas
Physical description
Black painted and gilded wooden frame
Production
Person
Fialetti, Odoardo, 1573 - 1638 (Artist)
Date
1611
History and association
Object history note
Provenance: Sir Henry Wotton, 1636
Exhibited: Eton 1440-1490, Brewhouse Gallery, 1990; British Museum 'Shakespeare, Staging the World', 2012
Note: Order photo of Jacopo de’ Barbari, Pianta prospettiva di Venezia from Museo Correr, Venice (May 2007) Correspondence with Laura Walters, PhD student, St Andrew’s, working on F’s relationship with Wotton as route of entry for F’s works into England - in addition to contact with Earl of Arundel and Baron Roos (May 2007)
Exhibited: Eton 1440-1490, Brewhouse Gallery, 1990; British Museum 'Shakespeare, Staging the World', 2012
Note: Order photo of Jacopo de’ Barbari, Pianta prospettiva di Venezia from Museo Correr, Venice (May 2007) Correspondence with Laura Walters, PhD student, St Andrew’s, working on F’s relationship with Wotton as route of entry for F’s works into England - in addition to contact with Earl of Arundel and Baron Roos (May 2007)
References
• Visentini, M. A., ‘Ancora un’inedita pianta prospettica di Venezia in un dipinto di Odoardo Fialetti per Sir Henry Wotton’ in Bollettino Civici Musei Veneziani d’Arte e di Storia, 1980 (XXV N.S. n.1-4, pp 19-26)
• McConnell, ed., Treasures of Eton, London, 1976 (Short references )
• Eton 1440-1990, exhibition catalogue, 1990 (p.42)
• McConnell, ed., Treasures of Eton, London, 1976 (Short references )
• Eton 1440-1990, exhibition catalogue, 1990 (p.42)
