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1778-1783 (made)
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Anton Raphael Mengs and Anton von Maron. Plate 5 of 8 from a set of 12 entitled Die Antiken Wand- und Deckengemälde des Landhauses Negroni, welche Villa swischen dem Weinhügel und dem Esquilinium in Jahre 1777 entdeckt und ausgegraben wurde ... Die nach diesen Malereien auf Veranlassung A.R. Mengs von Röm. Architecten Camillo Buti herausgegebenen 11 Blätter (sic) nach A.R. Mengs and A.R. Maron's Zeichnungen gestochen von Ang. Campanella, P. Vitali und H. Garattoni. Rome, 1778-1783.


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Brief description
Anton Raphael Mengs and Anton von Maron. Plate 5 of 8 from a set of 12 entitled Die Antiken Wand- und Deckengemälde des Landhauses Negroni, welche Villa swischen dem Weinhügel und dem Esquilinium in Jahre 1777 entdeckt und ausgegraben wurde ... Die nach diesen Malereien auf Veranlassung A.R. Mengs von Röm. Architecten Camillo Buti herausgegebenen 11 Blätter (sic) nach A.R. Mengs and A.R. Maron's Zeichnungen gestochen von Ang. Campanella, P. Vitali und H. Garattoni. Rome, 1778-1783.
Dimensions
  • Length: 55.0-56.7cm
  • Width: 63.1-81.2cm
Marks and inscriptions
(Lettered with names of original artists and engraver, dedications, descriptions etc. in Latin. Numbered I - VII. E.516-1890 (Pl. VIII) has lettering cut off.)
Object history
The Department has examples of Plates I - VIII from the above-named set. Plates I - III were engraved after drawings by Mengs by Angelo Campanella and Plates IV - VIII were engraved after drawings by von Maron by Campanella and Pietro Marco Vitali, von Maron having continued the project after the death of Mengs in 1779. A printed advertisement for the set issued by its publisher Camillo Buti (a copy of which is in the Department, reg. no. D.1479.2-1898) makes it clear from ink insertions that the publication of thirteen plates was contemplated. No complete set is recorded. The British Museum possesses hand-coloured, proof impressions (before letters) of eleven plates, plus some unbound duplicate impressions. There were formerly eight plates in the Berlin Collection.
Bibliographic reference
Berlin Staatlich Museen., Katalog der Ornamentstich-Sammlung der Staatlichen Kunstbibliothek Berlin, Berlin and Leipzig, 1936-39, 3949. Nagler, G K, Neues allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon, 22 vols, Munich, 1835, vol. VIII, p.344.
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19600

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