Courtesy of Holkham Hall | Licence: All Rights Reserved
Courtesy of Holkham Hall | Licence: All Rights Reserved

A Nymph presenting the newborn Adonis to Venus

Collective Title

Two Albums of Drawings after the Antique by Francesco Bartoli. Bound in gilt-tooled, full tan Morocoo, bound in c. 1830 by F&T. Aiken. Both volumes: 59.3 x 44.5cm.

Collection

Holkham Hall

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Additional Information

From the Collection

Description

After a painting in an ancient Roman grotto. See Picturae Antiquae (1791), no. 3.
Volume 1; Folio No. 34

Image Licence

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Image Credit

Courtesy of Holkham Hall

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Location

Rome, Italy

Country

Italy

Tags

arts

Tww Comment

From an album in which Bartoli records classical motifs, many of which copied from frescoes in identified buildings in Rome.