View of the Cascade at Terni, Italy
Abraham-Louis-Rodolphe Ducros (1748 - 1810)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1788
Materials
Watercolour on paper, pasted to linen and on a wooden strainer. In a gilt wood frame.
Measurements
860 x 1200 mm
Place of origin
Switzerland
Order this imageCollection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 929913
Summary
Watercolour on paper, View of the Cascade at Terni by Louis Ducros (Yverdon, Switzerland 1748 – Lausanne 1810). Painted for the 6th Earl of Stamford in 1788. The Falls of Velino, where it empties itself into the Nera near Terni, known as the Cascate delle Marmore, are about 650 feet high. Colt Hoare, in describing the similar drawing at Stourhead, said that it showed the waterfall from the point where it should be, but seldom is seen, i.e. from the oposite bank of the river. Cascata delle Marmore. The falls have been created almost entirely by man. Curius Dentatus, conqueror of the Sabines (271 B.C.) was the first to cut a channel by which the River Vellinus (Velino) was thrown over a precipice into the River Nar, to prevent flooding in the plain of Reate (Reti). Another channel was cut in 1400 and a third, draining the plain of Rieti without flooding Terni) in 1785. Today the falls have been diverted entirely for industrial purposes, but are released to their original channels on certain holidays.
Provenance
painted for the 6th Earl of Stamford in 1788.
Makers and roles
Abraham-Louis-Rodolphe Ducros (1748 - 1810), artist
Exhibition history
Souvenirs of the Grand Tour, Wildenstein, London, 1982, no.26