An antique Roman Candelabrum
Drawing
c.1731-82 (made)
c.1731-82 (made)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Drawing, a candelabrum in the antique Roman taste, by Giuseppe Manocchi (c.1731-82).
Object details
| Object type | |
| Title | An antique Roman Candelabrum (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | |
| Brief description | Drawing, a candelabrum in the antique Roman taste, by Giuseppe Manocchi (c.1731-82). |
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| Style | |
| Bibliographic reference | Ward-Jackson, Peter, Italian Drawings Volume II. 17th-18th century, London, 1980, pp. 154-155.
The text is as follows:
MANOCCHI, GIUSEPPE
(c.1731-82)
1050
Drawing of a candelabrum in the antique Roman taste
Inscribed in ink by C.H. Tatham ‘Executed in marble standing 8 ft. 9 in. high. Perfect as represented. Price £80. Rome Jan. 7. 1795’
Black ink and dark brown wash
16 7/8 x 7 7/8 (428 x 199) D.1495-1898
PROVENANCE C.H. Tatham; Henry Holland; Sir J. Soane (included in an album containing letters and drawings sent by Tatham and others in Rome to Holland in London. Soane’s book-plate is on the fly-leaf)
The drawing is mentioned in a letter from Tatham to Holland, dated Rome 15 Febuary 1795, included in the same album. ‘You will receive’, writes Tatham, ‘a sketch of a candelabra which the Proprietor calls antique, but I myself do not think so…however, be it as it will, you will readily admire the grandeur and taste of the composition…and is not over-rated at £80’. The proprietor was the sculptor Vincenzo Paccetti (c.1746-1820) who states in his diary on 10 Febuary 1795 that he has seen ‘il Signor Tetam’ and given him a drawing of his candelabrum to send to England, the price beign 400 scudi (the equivalent of £80, according to a rate of exchange given by Tatham in a letter dated 10 July 1795 in the same album). This information was kindly given to us in a letter by mr Hugh Honour, who suggested that Paccetti was the author of the drawing. The handling, however, is exactly that of Manocchi, who might easily have been employed to make a drawing of the type in which he was a specialist. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | D.1495-1898 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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