Character: Fauns (continued) and Common Nature: 832/7.f.41

Materials used in production

Brown ink

Components of the work

Support composed of laid paper
Leaf Height 230 mm Width 169 mm

Techniques used in production

Handwriting : Pen and brown ink on laid paper

Inscription or legends present

• Text: 41
• Location: Upper right corner
• Method of creation: Graphite

Inscription present: the following in brown ink: [i] preceding four words crossed through

• Text: generally exposed naked to the Seasons, to / running leaping & other violent excercise / The fat Sileni are figures fomed by excess / There are other Sileni whose faces & figures / have a more Philosophic Character / these seem particularly to officiate as priests / & to have the care of the mysteries / There heads in the[i] / some of the fauns have faces of young & / old Goats+ / Tritons have characters resembling the fauns* / Common Nature / Are distinguished by forms less perfect than / the Heroes, less beauty, of countenance, & Strength / in size / These rules contain the differents[sic] / Orders of Being which may be represented / to our Senses / And they cannot be transgressed without / confounding the Orders. / + busts in the Vatican intended to resemble fish / * A fine half figure in the Vatic:n perhaps in its countenance is
• Location: Recto
• Method of creation: Brown ink

Identification numbers

Accession number: 832/7.f.41
Primary reference Number: 38736
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Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints