Design for a ceiling: Mars and Aries

Unknown (Italian)

Item type:

drawing

Date of creation:

18th century

Height:

24.9 cm  (9 13/16 in.)

Width:

24.7 cm  (9 3/4 in.)

Technique / Medium:

pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash and watercolor, with gouache, over traces of graphite; framing lines in brown ink

Description

The four corners of the drawing depict column capitals; at the bottom, writing appears. Upper left: a jingle ring, four treble shawms or trumpets (mouthpieces not visible), a coiled horn, perhaps the mouthpiece of a double-reed instrument, and what may be the fontanelle and bell of a basset recorder. Lower right corner: four shawms or trumpets (only bells visible). The writing at the bottom is indistinct.

RIdIM images

Image URLs

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RIdIM record id

2087