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Giovanni Battista Lenardi (1656-1704)
Figures recording the monuments of antiquity c.1690
Pen and brown ink, black wash over red chalk | 31.2 x 22.9 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 906814
Giovanni Battista Lenardi (1656-1704)
Figures recording the monuments of antiquity c.1690
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A drawing of two women drawing from the ruins of antiquity which surround them, whilst being attacked by Time; a third writes a description of them in a book, and a fourth woman selects the type with which to print what the third is writing. This is an exact study for the frontispiece to Giovanni Ciampini's Vetera Monumenta, Rome, 1690. Inscribed: Di Gio. Batista Lenardi.
Provenance
Probably acquired by George III in 1762 as part of the collection of Cardinal Alessandro Albani; first recorded in a Royal Collection inventory of c.1810 (Inv. A, p. 128: 'Guglielmo Burgognone a Cotempory of Carlo Maratti. Baccicia. Baldi. and others of inferior note')
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Medium and techniques
Pen and brown ink, black wash over red chalk
Measurements
31.2 x 22.9 cm (sheet of paper)
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