Graphite drawing of Diana rising from her bed, surrounded by her attendants
Description:
Title devised by curator., On mount, in pencil in an unknown hand: "From the Chaloner Smith Collection. Autograph at back. C. Maratti, engraved.", Inscribed in lower right corner of image: "Carlo Maratti.", On verso of drawing, written in pencil in an unknown hand: "Carlo Maratti--Horace Walpole's Collection 1822.", In another unknown hand on verso of drawing: "C. Maratti.", Watermark: IVilledary., Formerly housed as part of the SH Contents collection., Possibly one of the drawings described by A.T. Hazen in his Catalogue of Horace Walpole's library, no. 3567-3569., and Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
A collection of drawings of Celtic designs, heads (a satyr, bacchanalian, Chinese, and two classical), ornaments, two with muscial motifs (wind instruments), on a variety of papers, some oiled, probably from the 16th-18th centuries, mounted on a leaf disbound from a 19th century album
Description:
Title devised by curator. and One of four sheets from a 19th century album. To view other sheets, see Lewis Walpole Library: Drawings Un58 nos. 74 and 75 and SH Contents Sa5 no. 1.
Subject (Topic):
Architectural decorations & ornaments and Heads (Anatomy)
