drawing;
album
- Museum number
- 2013,5015.1.116
- Description
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Study of the heads on the Lante Vase; formerly in the Villa Lante. From a volume of 146 drawings illustrating Roman sculpture
Black chalk
- Production date
- 1710-1730 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 666 millimetres (of volume)
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Height: 164 millimetres
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Width: 559 millimetres (of volume)
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Width: 379 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For a description of the volume and bibliography, see 2013.5015.1.1
This is a preliminary drawing of ECL-Bm.4:69-2012
The Lante Vase is said to have been found in fragments in Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli, and is known to have been in the Villa Lante as early as 1639. It was acquired by Giovanni Volpato and sold by him to Colonel John Campbell (later 1st Lord Cawdor) in 1788. Obtaining an export licence proved to be difficult and Thomas Jenkins played an important role in securing it. It was at the sale of Lord Cawdor's collection in 1800 that the Duke of Bedford purchased the vase for £735.79
See:
- Letter from Hamilton to Townley, 27 November 1784
‘…Signore Volpato has purchased the vase which you probably recollect stood at the Villa Lanti & is badly engraved by Piranesi, it is a fine thing of the kind, & was much coveted by the King of Sweden, who probably thinks no more about it…’ [TY 7/664]
- Letter from Jenkins to Townley, 26 April 1788
‘Other Virtu News is Col. Campbell has Purchased Volpato’s Vase, formerly in the Villa Lanti for 2000 Crowns altho’ the Pope had previously declined it, he now Prohibits its going out of Rome, Nor will he Purchase it. The Vase is now in my House in deposit, The Property of the Col….’ [TY 7/471]
- John Russell, Duke of Bedford, 'Outline engravings and descriptions of the Woburn Abbey marbles', (1822), pl. XV and XVI
- A.H.Smith, 'A catalogue of sculpture at Woburn Abbey in the collection of His Grace the Duke of Bedford', (1900), pp.27-29, figs.13 and 14
- Elizabeth Angelicoussis, 'The Woburn Abbey collection of classical antiquities', (1992), pp.102-104, no.82, figs.365-379
- Luigi Ficacci, 'Piranesi: The Complete Etchings', (2000), p.610, no.772 and 773
- I. Bignamini and C. Hornsby, 'Digging and Dealing in Eighteenth-Century Rome' (2010), Vol. 1, p. 250
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1814
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 2013,5015.1.116
