Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Camera sepolcrale rotonda con prospetto decorato di architettura nelle Catacombe di Alessandria.
Call Number
C South 07/Drawer 04/GC173/Half Folio GA 2024.01926
Identifier
ark:/88435/fn107745z
Publisher
1792.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1792
Extent
1 item
Source Acquisition
Gift of Mrs. Frederick H. Hahn.
References
Views in Egypt from the original drawings in the possession of Sir Robert Ainslie, London, 1801, opposite p. 27. (reproduced in).
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Watercolors
Depiction: Interior view. Catacombs of Alexandria.
Item description: One in a series of twelve watercolors.
Provenance: From an extra-illustrated Bible formerly in the possession of the Willoughby family in Grimsthorpe Castle.
Signed in pencil, verso: "Luigi Mayer 1792".

Discovery Information

Subject
Catacombs—Egypt—Alexandria—In art
Interior architecture—Middle East—In art
Interior architecture—Egypt—Alexandria—In art
Interior architecture—Africa, North—In art

Physical Characteristics

File Count
2

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
Holding location
{@id=https://bibdata.princeton.edu/locations/delivery_locations/13}
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/a149030a-8dfe-4c14-b4c4-dbbb4c45f1e9/manifest