drawing;
album
- Museum number
- 1955,1210.10.26
- Description
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The nympheum known as the Grotta della Ninfa Egeria, Caffarella Valley, Rome; formerly in an album
Watercolour, over graphite
- Production date
- 1789-1794
- Dimensions
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Height: 495 millimetres
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Width: 640 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For introductory comment see 1955,1210.10.1
This is the so-called Ninfeo di Egeria (or Grotta) also in the Caffarella Valley. The version at the Vatican Library shows a group of figures engaged in the Saltarello dance. At the library also a watercolour copy of the present one, posthumous according to Jatta.
For a thorough study of Labruzzi's works on the Via Appia see: P.A. de Rosa - B. Jatta, 'La Via Appia nei disegni di Carlo Labruzzi alla Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana', Città del Vaticano B.A.V. 2013.
Variations of the drawing: BAV, Vat. Lat. 14931(90); Museo di Roma, Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe, GS 949 (from a different point of view).
Lit.: De Rosa - Jatta, cit., under cat. 90, pp. 280-1.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1955
- Acquisition notes
- This item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45. The British Museum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1955,1210.10.26