Ariccia; the Chigi Palace and Santa Maria dell' Assunzione
James Forrester (Dublin 1729/30 - Rome 1775/6)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1769 - 1775
Materials
Pen and ink and wash on blue-grey paper
Measurements
276 x 366 mm
Place of origin
Italy
Order this imageCollection
Osterley Park and House, London
NT 267154
Summary
Pen and ink and wash drawing on blue-grey paper, Ariccia; the Chigi Palace and Santa Maria dell'Assunzione by James Forrester (Dublin 1729/30 - Rome 1775/6). In the foreground, beside a river and a broken tree trunk two classical-dressed figures are having a discussion, one standing and the other seated with a book or stone plaque. In the distance up on a hill is the town.
Provenance
Earl of Portalington (1744–1798); Colnaghi's, 1925; Hector Towlson (1882 - 1962) of Monmouth from whom bought by Robert Abbot, 3 Castlenau, Barnes; bought by Brinsley Ford, September 1958 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
James Forrester (Dublin 1729/30 - Rome 1775/6), artist
References
Crookshank 1978 Anne Crookshank & The Knight of Glin, The Painters of Ireland, c. 1660-1920, 1978, p. 126, fig. 110 Butler 1990, Particia Butler, Three Hundred Years of Irish Watercolours and Drawings, 1990, p. 51, fig. 47 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, RBF245, fig.105 Garnett 2015: Oliver Garnett, At Home with Art Treasures from the Ford Collection at Basildon Park, National Trust, 2015, p. 24