The Construction of a Temple, after Orazio Borgianni (?)
Margaret Holford, Countess of Morley (1855-1908)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1862
Materials
Pencil, Tracing paper
Measurements
186 mm (H)248 mm (W)246 mm (W)
Order this imageCollection
Saltram, Devon
NT 872887
Summary
Pen drawing on yellowish tracing paper (historical figure drawing); the scene is an antique city, on the background left smaller houses, an obelisk, a column and a rotunda; in the centre a huge building, with one of the columns of a porticus on its left; right, looking through a window opening; men working on a ramp; in the foreground, in front of the building five men, semi-nude working on blocks of stone, from the right coming into the field; two bulls and a cart pulling a huge block of stone on rolls; behind the group on the right; two men carrying blocks of stone up the stairs of the porticus of the building; in the centre, on a pedestal that is part of the building; a man, with a beard, showing and explaining a plan to a crowned king, four other men in antique dress standing behind him looking at the plan; a simple line on the right indicates the boundary of the field of the picture.
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
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Makers and roles
Margaret Holford, Countess of Morley (1855-1908), artist Orazio Borgianni (c.1578 - 1616), painter