The Tomb of Cecilia Metella, Rome
Giovanni Battista Busiri (Rome 1698 - 1757)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1740 (signed and dated)
Materials
Gouache on paper mounted on panel, gilt framed and glazed
Measurements
228 x 348 mm
Place of origin
Rome
Order this imageCollection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 1401139
Summary
Gouache on paper, The Tomb of Cecilia Metella, wife of Crassus by Giovanni Battista Busiri (Rome 1698 -1757), signed and dated: G. B. Busiri pinx. Romae 1740. Water in foreground with figures and swans, on slope behind is the Tomb of Cecilia Metella, further off to the right are two more tombs. Inscribed (by William Windham on reverse): Tomb of Cecilia Metella wife of Crassus near Roem, called Capo di Bove.
Provenance
Part of the Windham Collection. The hall and contents were bequeathed to the National Trust in 1969 by Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer (1906-1969)
Credit line
Felbrigg Hall, The Windham Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Giovanni Battista Busiri (Rome 1698 - 1757) , artist
Exhibition history
Souvenirs of the Grand Tour, Wildenstein & Co., London, 1982, no.11
References
Vici 1966 Andrea Busiri Vici, G. B. Busiri, 1966, no. 45