The Tomb of Caecilia Metella, Rome
Giovanni Battista Busiri (Rome 1698 - 1757)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
Unknown
Materials
Gouache on paper
Measurements
365 x 308 mm
Place of origin
Rome
Order this imageCollection
Osterley Park and House, London
NT 267128
Summary
Gouache on paper, The Tomb of Caecilia Metella, Rome by Giovanni Battista Busiri (Rome 1698 - 1757). An oval view of the Tomb of Caecilia Metella on the Via Appia near Rome. An urn is mounted at left on the road leading towards the mausoleum. A stream, possibly the Almone, can be seen in the foreground, traversed by a bridge. A figure reclines on the bridge's pier while another collects water from a spout. See also NT 267129.
Provenance
One of the gouache oval paintings of Roman ruins by 'Del Titarelli' hanging in either the North Room, Blue Room or the Tea Room at Westport House, Co. Mayo, Ireland, July 1910. No. 123 in the Westport House Paintings Catalogue c.1910-1930 and by descent to Denis Edward Browne, 10th Marquess of Sligo (1908-1991), Westport House, Co. Mayo, Ireland; his sale, Christies, 4 October, 1958 (Lot 37 [part]) as Pietro Bianchi; purchased by Agnews for 48 guineas from whom purchased by Brinsley Ford (£55) and by descent to Augustine Ford. Accepted under the Cultural Gifts Scheme by HM Government from Augustine Ford and allocated to the National Trust for Osterley, 2023.
Makers and roles
Giovanni Battista Busiri (Rome 1698 - 1757) , artist previously catalogued as by Pietro Bianchi (Rome 1694 – Rome 1740), artist
References
Ford 1998 Brinsley Ford, John Ingamells, Francis Russell, John Christian, Nicholas Penny, Jennifer Montagu, Howard Coutts, Timothy Wilson & Dudley Dodd, The Ford Collection – II, Walpole Society, Vol. 60, 1998, pp. 91-376, p. 164 (RBF89) Garnett 2015: Oliver Garnett, At Home with Art Treasures from the Ford Collection at Basildon Park, National Trust, 2015, p. 19