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Folio 92 verso (Ashby 154): Corinthian capital with winged Victories from the Baths of Titus or Trajan
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Reference number
SM volume 115/154
Purpose
Folio 92 verso (Ashby 154): Corinthian capital with winged Victories from the Baths of Titus or Trajan
Aspect
Perspectival view
Scale
Not known
Inscribed
[Drawing] 24 [early seventeenth-century hand]; Alle Terme di Vespasiano (‘At the Baths of Vespasian’); 27 [in graphite]
[Mount] 154 [x2]
Signed and dated
- 1625/35
Date range: 1625/35
Medium and dimensions
[Drawing] Pen and brown ink and grey-brown and brown wash; on laid paper (231x164mm), rounded corners at right, inlaid (back to front with respect to original foliation)
Mount] Frame lines, in pen and dark brown ink, 10mm apart; window (224x158mm)
Hand
Seventeenth-Century Hand 2 (Sangallo Copyist 2)
Watermark
See recto
Notes
Another seventeenth-century insertion, this drawing is of a now-lost Corinthian-type capital that has winged Victories at the corners framing paired cornucopias and stands on an elaborately fluted shaft. According to the caption, it was seen at the ‘Baths of Vespasian’, which could denote the Baths of Titus overlooking the Colosseum, or perhaps the neighbouring Baths of Trajan. No other images of it are known. Like others in the codex from the seventeenth century, the drawing is numbered in graphite.
Literature
Ashby 1904, p. 72
Campbell 2004, 2, pp. 648 and 650
Census, ID 47098
Campbell 2004, 2, pp. 648 and 650
Census, ID 47098
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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