Four doves drinking from a bowl of water.
Giovanni Girolamo Frezza (1659/71 - c.1741)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
c. 1741
Materials
Ink on paper
Measurements
384 x 383 mm
Collection
Saltram, Devon
NT 873018.10.128
Summary
(Folio 54, recto, upper print) Four doves drinking from a bowl of water. A painting excavated in Hadrian's villa at Tivoli in 1738 and subsequently in the Capitoline Museums. Around it is a beadwork moulding. Enlarged views of a bead are shown bottom left (side view) and bottom right
Marks and inscriptions
Mirabilis ibi columba bibens, et aquam umbra capitis infuscans. Apricantur aliae scabentes sese in canthari labro. Plin. lib. XXXVI cap. XXV. Opus vermiculatum inter hadrianae villa rudera in agro Tiburtino repertum mense Aprili MDCCXXXVII ab ill.mo ac rev.mo praesule Josepho Alexandro Furietto. Gaspar Forier delin. Hieronymus Frezza sculp. Romae 1741
Makers and roles
Giovanni Girolamo Frezza (1659/71 - c.1741) , engraver (printmaker)