The Falls of Tivoli
Abraham-Louis-Rodolphe Ducros (1748 - 1810)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
circa 1786 - 1810
Materials
Watercolour with a small area of varnish on paper laid on canvas
Measurements
660 x 1016 mm (26 x 40 in)
Place of origin
Tivoli (Italy)
Order this imageCollection
Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 730810
Summary
Watercolour with a small area of varnish on paper laid on canvas, The Falls of Tivoli, by Abraham Louis Ducros (Yverdon, Switzerland 1748 – Lausanne 1810). The falls seen from below, with the Temple of the Sibyl at the top of the composition. Inscribed (on reverse of canvas backing): 'Grotte de Neptune pour monsieur chevalier Hoare de chez Du Cros.'
Marks and inscriptions
Verso: Inscribed (on reverse of canvas backing): Grotte de Neptune pour monsieur chevalier Hoare de chez Du Cros
Makers and roles
Abraham-Louis-Rodolphe Ducros (1748 - 1810), artist
References
Images of the Grand Tour: Louis Ducros 1748-1810 (ed. P. Chessex and Lindsay Stainton), Iveagh Bequest, Kenwood, 4 Sept.-31 Oct. 1985; Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 10 Jan.- 22 Feb.1986; Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, 21 Mar.-19 May 1986, no. 68 Woodbridge 1970 Kenneth Woodbridge, Landscape and Antiquity: Aspects of English Culture at Stourhead1718 to 1838, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1970, p.96, and pl.31b