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Inscription: 832/9.f.30

Object information

Awaiting location update

Titles

Inscription
Inscription

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Flaxman, John

Entities

Categories

Description

The sketchbook has been used upside down: f.29 recto is the end of the inscription beginning on f.30 verso.

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1916-12) by Murray, Charles Fairfax

School or Style

British

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

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