The Virgin seated on a high throne, surrounded by angels playing musical instruments, and with St Petronius and St John the Evangelist below
after Domenico Zampieri Domenichino (Bologna 1581 - Naples 1641)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1630 - 1650
Materials
Ink on paper.
Measurements
535 x 346 mm
Collection
Saltram, Devon
NT 873018.5.132
Caption
Several of the prints in the nine albums acquired by the Parkers in 1772 from Angelica Kauffman have been squared up using a red pencil to make a grid across the image. This was a technique used by artists to copy images by hand on to a bigger canvas. Kauffman who collected the prints was a student in Italy and copied many of the Old Masters in Florence, Rome and Parma from 1754 – 1764. These prints could also have been used by Frances Talbot, Countess of Morley (1782 – 1857) as she was a gifted amateur artist and was known to copy from the masters. In one of the albums, (873018.10.82) a print has been removed from the page which has an inscription confessing to the deed: “I cut out this print in 1880”, signed Morley. Clear evidence that these prints were much loved by the subsequent generations of owners.
Summary
(Folio 53, recto). The Virgin seated on a high throne, surrounded by angels playing musical instruments, and with St Petronius and St John the Evangelist below; after Domenichino red pencil grid over print
Marks and inscriptions
Below: With cursive lettering below: 'Dominicus Zamperius Bononiensis In' and 'Eques Franciscus Raspantinus delineavit' and 'P del Po sculp in aqua forti'
Makers and roles
after Domenico Zampieri Domenichino (Bologna 1581 - Naples 1641), creator