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Drawing 1: Frieze with putto and dog from the Baths of Caracalla
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Reference number
SM volume 115/100a
Purpose
Drawing 1: Frieze with putto and dog from the Baths of Caracalla
Aspect
Depiction of ornament
Scale
Not known
Inscribed
Alle Terme d’Antonino (‘In the baths of Antoninus’); 10 [in graphite]
Signed and dated
- 1625/35
Date range: 1625/35
Medium and dimensions
Pen and brown ink and brown wash over graphite
Hand
Seventeenth-Century Hand 1 (Codex Ursinianus Copyist)
Notes
Added to the codex in the early seventeenth century, the drawing records a part of a frieze from the Baths of Caracalla (or ‘Antoninus’). A seemingly related drawing is to be found in a mid- sixteenth-century compilation in Berlin. This, however, also includes the architrave below and an ornamented cyma moulding above, and it shows the acanthus cawl on the left as being positioned not as part of a continuing design but at a corner. As Ashby noted, parts of friezes of similar decoration have been discovered in the complex’s frigidarium and peristyles. Like several others in the codex dating from the seventeenth century, the drawing is numbered in graphite.
RELATED IMAGES: [Anon.] Berlin, Kunstbibliothek, inv. OZ 114, fol. 22 (Römische Skizzen 1988, pp. 152–56)
OTHER DRAWINGS IN CODEX CONER OF SAME SUBJECT: Fol. 13r and flap/Ashby 22
RELATED IMAGES: [Anon.] Berlin, Kunstbibliothek, inv. OZ 114, fol. 22 (Römische Skizzen 1988, pp. 152–56)
OTHER DRAWINGS IN CODEX CONER OF SAME SUBJECT: Fol. 13r and flap/Ashby 22
Literature
Ashby 1904, p. 49
Campbell 2004, 2, pp. 623–24
Census, ID 45569
Campbell 2004, 2, pp. 623–24
Census, ID 45569
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Codex Coner has been made possible through the generosity of the Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture Known in the Renaissance, Berlin.
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