The Forum looking towards the Capitol, Rome
Giovanni Battista Busiri (Rome 1698 - 1757)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
Unknown
Materials
Gouache on paper
Measurements
340 x 230 mm
Place of origin
Rome
Order this imageCollection
Osterley Park and House, London
NT 267130
Summary
Gouache on paper, The Forum looking towards the Capitol, Rome by Giovanni Battista Busiri (Rome 1698 -1757). A view of the Roman Forum with the Arch of Septimus Severus behind the trees at centre, the Capitoline Hill and the bell tower of the Palazzo Senatorio beyond. A marble colonnade belonging to the Temple of Antoninus and Faustina (San Lorenzo in Miranda) at right, with figures and architectural fragments in the foreground. A red painted carriage in the middle distance.
Provenance
Probably one of the gouache paintings by 'Del Titarelli' hanging in either the North Room or the Tea Room at Westport House, Co. Mayo, Ireland, July 1910. No. 113 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 39) as Pietro Bianchi; purchased by Brinsley Ford (£54.12s.0d.) 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. 165 (RBF91) Garnett 2015: Oliver Garnett, At Home with Art Treasures from the Ford Collection at Basildon Park, National Trust, 2015, p. 19