Eighteen views of Rome: The Quattro Fontane looking toward Santa Maria Maggiore

Cruyl, Lieven (ca. 1640-ca. 1720)


Item type:
drawing
Date of creation:
1665
Height:
38.6 cm  (15 3/16 in.)
Width:
48.7 cm  (19 3/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
pen and brown ink and brush and gray wash over graphite; framing lines in brown ink

    Item location

  • Cleveland Museum of Art
    [Museum inv. no.: 1943.274]

Description

The tower of the church of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane contains a single bell. (Cruyl executed etchings of part of this set of drawings for a set of ten views of Rome first printed in 1666. For the drawings described here, the image of the drawing is reversed.)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Bell [2381]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1

Notes

One of four that include musical aspects from a set of 21 known drawings, of which this museum holds 18.

RIdIM record id

2128