drawing
- Museum number
- 2005,0927.95
- Description
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No. 448
Terracotta lamp, with small handle, turned centre and fluted body.
Red chalk on white.
No. 449:
Lamp surmounted by eagle on fulmen.
Red chalk on white.
No. 450:
Lamp with figure of Minerva ("Pallas Vitrix")
Brown ink and grey washes on white.
- Dimensions
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Height: 86 millimetres (no. 448)
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Height: 362 millimetres (no. 449)
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Height: 370 millimetres (no. 450)
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Width: 127 millimetres (no. 448)
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Width: 145 millimetres (no. 449)
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Width: 132 millimetres (no. 450)
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- Curator's comments
- No. 449:
The original is in Rome, in the Museum of Cav. Urbano Rocci.
Causeus credits his cut, which is reversed, to Bartoli.
No. 450:
The original is in Rome, in the studio of G. P. Bellori.
For the general type, sp. Walters, B.M. Lamps, pl. II, 37 f.
[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
- 2005,0927.95
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Vol.II, fol. 95, nos. 448-450 (Franks)