drawing;
album
- Museum number
- 2013,5015.3.43
- Description
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Study of a statuette of the Egyptian god Bes; formerly in the Palazzo Verospi, now in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (Inv. GR. 1. 1818). From a volume of 119 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: 419 millimetres
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Width: 559 millimetres (of volume)
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Width: 283 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.6:21-2012
Engraved in Jean Baptist Claude Richard Saint-Non, 'Recueil de Griffonis de vues paysayes, fragments antiques et sujets historiques, gravee tant a l'eau forte qu'an David par Mr l'Abbe de Saint Non, amateur honoraire et l'Academie Royale Peinture..' (1756), pl.43
See also: Ludwig Budde and Richard Nicholls, 'A catalogue of the Greek and Roman sculpture in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge' (1964), p.73, cat.no.117
- Ian Jenkins, ‘Dr Mead (1673-1754) and Richard Topham’s drawings of Roman Sculpture’, in H. Wrede and M. Kunze (eds.) 300 Jahre Thesaurus Brandenburgicus, Berlin and Stendahl 2000 (Munich 2006) pp.339-347, cat. 8, fig.13
- Arachne 50313
- Salomon Reinach, ' Répertoire de la Statuaire Grecque et Romaine', (1897), Vol. I, p. 417, no.1.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1814
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 2013,5015.3.43
