Design for the back of a coach
Drawing
mid 17th century (made)
mid 17th century (made)
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| Place of origin |
Design for the back of a coach decorated with human figures
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Design for the back of a coach (published title) |
| Materials and techniques | pen and ink and wash |
| Brief description | Drawing, Design for the back of a coach, artist unknown, Roman School, pen and ink and wash, mid 17th century |
| Physical description | Design for the back of a coach decorated with human figures |
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| Production type | Unique |
| Object history | J. Talman (as shown by traces of gold borders and the mark inscribed on the back: cf. Lugt Supplement 2926a, and 2926b); it is not recorded how the Museum, in its early days, acquired the sheet |
| Production | Belongs to a series of three (see museum no. 117 & 118) |
| Bibliographic reference | Ward-Jackson, Peter, Italian Drawings. Volume II. 17th-18th century, London, 1979, cat. 861, p. 101, illus.
The following is the full text of the entry:
ROME: mid 17th century
Design for the back of a coach
Pen and ink and wash
7 7/8 x 7 5/8 (199 x 193) 116
PROVENANCE J. Talman (as shown by traces of gold borders and the mark inscribed on the back: cf. Lugt <i>Supplement</i> 2926a, and 2926b); it is not recorded how the Museum, in its early days, acquired the sheet
One of a series of three designs for the same coach (see nos. 862 and 863). The arms of Boncompagni are on the right, those of . Borghese on the left. A winged dragon, an <i>impresa</i> of the Boncompagni, occurs on the other two drawings. It follows that the designs were made in 1658 on the occasion of the marriage between Giambattista Borghese, afterwards Prince of Sulmona (1639-1717) and Eleonora Boncompagni (1642-95), daughter of Ugo Boncompagni, Duke of Sora. The drawings are rather different in handling from those familiar designs, at Windsor and Diisseldorf, for example, which are usually attributed to artists like Ciro Ferri and Giovanni Paolo Schorr, the pen work being rougher and more broken: but they seem to have a Roman character. Nos. 862 and 863 are evidently alternative designs for the front of the coach, showing the shafts, while no. 861 is for the back. |
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| Accession number | 116 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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