The Dedication of a Child to Minerva
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1775
Materials
Oil on paper laid down on canvas
Collection
Osterley Park and House, London
NT 773427
Summary
Oil painting on paper laid down on canvas and fixed in the stucco frames after the ceiling was painted in July 1775 (centre medallion), The Dedication of a Child to Minerva (from Charles Cameron, The Baths of the Romans, 1772 – Antoni Gori’s Museum Florentinum, 1732) [pun to family]
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Osterley Park by George Francis Child-Villiers (1910–1998), 9th Earl of Jersey in 1949
Credit line
Osterley Park, The Jersey Collection (National Trust)