Inscription: 832/9.f.30

Materials used in production

Graphite
Ink

Components of the work

Support composed of laid paper
Leaf Height 179 mm Width 106 mm

Techniques used in production

Drawing (image-making) : Pen and ink with graphite on laid paper

Inscription or legends present

Inscription present: upside down, lines ruled in graphite

• Text: vasee &d in via appia near C mette[?]a _ the Base / &d in a rineyard without the P Popolo - / 12 Gods - Juno Jupiter Vulcan Neptune Mercy / ceres Venus with flowers - Mars Diana Ap H / - Battle of Amazons &d at Salona - in it / were the bones of a carcase - del Balsamo impetrito - / a small gold ring set with an Emerald a granite[sic] / & a diamond- / Apotheosis of Endymion - wrongly so suppos'd / _Prometheus _ the suppos'd urn of / Diadumeniano, who Heliogabalus had kill'd / at 12 years old with his father Macrinno / the child is a Portrait, the man & woman / represent the soul join'd to the Body descend / fr Heaven to their own proper Elements / accordg to Plato - fin is represented by / Vulcan & the Cyclops - Water by Neptune / the flying figure represents air & may be Juno Diana or Apollo / the Earth is setting with a cornicopia[sic]
• Location: Recto
• Method of creation: Brown ink

Inscription present: upside down, lines ruled in graphite

• Text: Campidoglio Basreliefs / Statilio apro - &d on M janiculo_ / dolphins symbol of Love & fedelity[sic] or hate[?] / Boy, was originally a winged Genius- / __ votive altar to Isis - Anubis Pirro Liguri[?] a / Spurius son of Osiris & Nefti, worship'd as Mercury / __ Apotheosis of [?]austina younger W of / M Aurele - figure lying - the Province of / Palmyra where she died & had these honors[?] / _ Arn of the Palladium &d in 1601 at / St George in Velabro - Initiation of Vestal / Virgins suppos'd in time of Domitian / - Great bas releif[sic] of Cybele &d in Villa of / Antoninus at Cio Ravinia -- / round B life of Achilles -of 15 Centy infra Cieli found / Palmyrene fragment, a votive br by Aurelian fr Pal-to Rome to decorate the Temple of the Sun & Moon, found near it / the figures are Aglibolo & Malachelo - the sun / & Moon perhaps the [?] Gods of Palmyra / -- Mosaic of Hercules & Lion &d in Port of Ha[?] / -Basrf Trajan & Plotina settling the Accession / of Hadrian-
• Location: Verso
• Method of creation: Brown ink

Identification numbers

Accession number: 832/9.f.30
Primary reference Number: 39669
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Thursday 20 May 2021 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints