Ceiling Paintings in the Loggia del Vaticano
Margaret Holford, Countess of Morley (1855-1908)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1862
Materials
Pencil, Tracing paper
Measurements
225 mm (H)132 mm (W)
Collection
Saltram, Devon
NT 872649
Summary
Pencil drawing on tracing paper (ornamental/architectonical drawing); a band [?] of ceiling paintings representing putti and angels, in two rows, slightly curved, five rectangular painting frames each; in the lower row plus a triangle at the beginning; added three fields with angels in triangles.
Provenance
At Saltram by 1962 and given to NT as part of the endowment by Montagu Brownlow Parker (1878-1962), 5th Earl of Morley
Marks and inscriptions
Bottom left; 'In the Ceiling/ of the Loggie. Vaticano'
Makers and roles
Margaret Holford, Countess of Morley (1855-1908), artist