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- Creator:
- Patch, Thomas, 1725-1782, artist
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1782]
- Call Number:
- Drawings P294 no. 1 Box D205
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A small audience sitting on benches on a tribune next to the equestrian statue of Cosimo I de' Medici in Piazza della Signoria, watching a military parade of the guards of the Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo of Lorena (1765-1790), son of the Empress Maria Theresa of Habsburg and brother of Joseph II. The soldiers, forming an L-shaped cordon and led by four battalion officers, are recognizable by their tricorns and the bayonets. At the center of the square, under the grand building of Palazzo Vecchio, stands a troop of drummers. Figures in the the foreground include a group of cavalrymen bearing a banner and followed by a cart on the right; a lady and gentleman waiting for a landau carriage at center; and a figure, maybe a soldier on look-out, watching the scene in Palazzo Uguccioni's shadow on the left
- Description:
- Title and artist attribution from dealer's description. and Date based on artist's death date.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Florence (Italy)
- Subject (Name):
- Piazza della Signoria (Florence, Italy), and Palazzo vecchio (Florence, Italy),
- Subject (Topic):
- Plazas, Equestrian statues, Military parades & ceremonies, Spectators, and Carriages & coaches
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [View of Piazza della Signoria in Florence with the Grand Duke's military guard] [art original].
