Temple of Vesta in the Mouth of the Cloaca Maxima
Giovanni Battista Busiri (Rome 1698 - 1757)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
circa 1718 - circa 1757
Materials
Gouache on paper mounted on panel, oval gilt framed and glazed
Measurements
230 x 170 mm
Order this imageCollection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 1401141
Summary
Gouache on paper, The Temple of Vesta in the mouth of Cloaca Maxima, by G.B. Busiri (1698-1757). Water with rocks and fishermen in foreground, and mouth of the Cloaca Maxima behind set in a boundary wall. Behind that is the circular Temple of Vesta at Mater Matuta and further off to right is the Church of S. Maria di Cosmedin with its now demolished baroque facade.
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)
Makers and roles
Giovanni Battista Busiri (Rome 1698 - 1757)
Exhibition history
Souvenirs of the Grand Tour, Wildenstein & Co., London, 1982, no.10
References
Vici 1966 Andrea Busiri Vici, G. B. Busiri, 1966, no.44