Marcus Tullius Cicero
Antonio Zucchi, RA (Venice 1726 - Rome 1796)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1768 - 1770
Materials
Oil on paper laid onto plaster
Place of origin
England
Collection
Saltram, Devon
NT 872170.4
Summary
Oil painting on paper laid onto plaster (circular), Marcus Tullius Cicero by Antonio Zucchi, RA (Venice 1726 – Rome 1796), 1768-70. One of a set of four circular medallions in the four corners of the central ceiling device.
Provenance
Accepted with Saltram house and contents by HM Treasury in part payment of death-duties from the executors of Edmund Robert Parker, 4th Earl of Morley (1877-1951) and transferred to the National Trust in 1957
Makers and roles
Antonio Zucchi, RA (Venice 1726 - Rome 1796), artist