drawing
- Museum number
- 2010,5010.1
- Description
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A reconstructed aerial view of the Circus of Maxentius with a numbered key and captions and a crowd watching a chariot race
Pen and ink and watercolour with traces of graphite underdrawing
- Production date
- 1770 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 450 millimetres
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Width: 973 millimetres
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- Curator's comments
- See 'Grand Tour: The Lure of Italy in the Eighteenth Century' ed. Andrew Wilton and Ilaria Bignamini (1996); p.236-7, no.186-188
Letter from Vincenzo Brenna to Charles Townley, 11th August 1772
G. Vaughan, 'Vincenzo Brenna Romanus: Architectus et Pictor', Apollo, October 1996, vol. CXLIV, p. 40
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2000
- Acquisition notes
- Formerly the property of Thomas Mansel Talbot, thence by descent to the owner who put them up for sale at Bloomsbury Auctions, Thursday 10 February 2000, Sale 365, Lot 169
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 2010,5010.1
