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Description: | Painted in watercolour with a full body scene of a ruined temple within a rural landscape. Enscribed on face. Border of black and red Pompeian type scrolling with narrow callsical panels either side in the style of Roman wall paintings. Gilt edging. Reverse is lined with plain vellum.
Enscribed on leaf face : "Veduta del Tempio di mercurioa Baja"
This inscription, though apparently contemporary, is erroneous, it is a view of the remains of the temple of Diana, Jaia. Baia, on the Western shores of the Gulf of Pozzuoli, was a resort of the Roman Emperors and the ruins of its two great temples, to Venus and Diana, were much visited by 18th century English tourists of watercolours by John Warwick Smith and others.
Sticks are bone with geometric and floral motifs with a central oval reserve.
Guards similar to sticks and lined with gold. Brass rivet and pearl washers.
Part of the Moorcroft donation and No. 416 in the Moorcroft Catalogue. Purchased by donor on 14.9.56 in The Lanes, Brighton for 7s.6d.
Leaf is presumably a Grand Tour Souvenir, probably purchased in Naples with either Italian or English sticks.
Material: vellum
Material: bone
Material: gilt
Material: brass
Material: gold
Material: pearl | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.16707 | Go to resource |
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