- Museum number
- 2005,0926.147
- Description
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No. 167:
Section of a statue of a Dacian-type barbarian, or personified province.
Brown ink on white.
Verso of no. 167: headless torso of an Egyptian-type lion (or sphinx ?)
Pen on white.
On drawing as recto: nel palazo di famegli i roma. Drawing and lettering in same hand.
No. 168:
Relief on the Roman consular tomb at Monte Albano.
Brown ink, brown and grey washes over pencil on white.
Verso of 168: remains of lettering.
- Dimensions
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Height: 280 millimetres (no. 167)
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Height: 183 millimetres (no. 168)
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Width: 155 millimetres (no. 167)
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Width: 255 millimetres (no. 168)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- No. 147:
The arrangement of the drapery is closest to that of the upper part of one of the two porphyry Dacians from the Palazzo Valle-Capranica (until 1584) and the Villa Medici (until 1788), and now in the Boboli Gardens, Florence. The variations in the positions of the right arm of the statue and of the drawing could be explained by the fact that this arm is restored, and therefore the artist has taken liberties in his sketch (cp. Delbrueck, Porphyrwerke, pp. 46 ff., pl. 4, A.). This drawing should also be compared with one of the two now restored Dacians in the Louvre (Delbrueck, pp. 43 ff., pl. 3, A; Reinach-Clarac, p. 167, no. 7); these figures were in the Palazzo Savelli in the Cinquecento and then in the Villa Borghese until 1806. What details of costuming we see here can also be compared with the Hadrianeum "provinces" (Toynbee, Hadrianic School, pls. XXXIV ff.).
Verso of no. 167: Egyptian lions or sphinxes were frequently excavated in the Renaissance: cp. (Michaelis, JDAI, VI, 1891) Heemskerck I, Fol. 33d.), p. 143, and II, Fol. 8 verso, b, p. 156; p. 153, fig. 4; p. 159, Fol. 24 verso, a.), 26 verso, a.); p. 160, fol. 34 verso, a.).
Similar to Winchelmann, Monumenti Inediti, I, pl. 78, or Cod. Berol. fol. 30r., no. 83 (Huelsen, Skizzenbuch, p. 19: one of the Egyptian lions from the Iseum in the Campus Martius, brought from S. Stefano del Cacco to the Capitol between 1559 and 1566. They are similar to those of Nectanebo in the Vatican: or the Albani lions in Dresden (Becker, Augusteum, pl. IV).
(THERE ARE 2 DRAWINGS ON THIS FOLIO)
No. 168:
Other drawings:
Windsor, no. 8382.
For the central motive, a cp. is offered by the relief Copenhagen, Cat., no. 817, Billedtavler, LXX, and the whole monument is paralleled by the similar sepulchral relief once on the Via Ostiense, at the third mile - the tomb of M. Antonius Antius Lupus (Bartoli, Gli antichi Sepolcri, pl. 43).
[this information from: C. C. Vermeule, The Dal Pozzo-Albani Drawings in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities of the British Museum (type-written manuscript in G&R)]
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1903
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 2005,0926.147
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Vol.I, fol. 147, nos. 167-168 (Franks)