Inscription: 832/9.f.29

Materials used in production

Graphite
Ink

Components of the work

Support composed of laid paper
Leaf Height 179 mm Width 106 mm

Techniques used in production

Drawing (image-making) : Pen and ink with graphite on laid paper

Inscription or legends present

Inscription present: upside down

• Text: Clio - for lodare - hramia - Melpomone / on the top a banquet - the muses delighted in Guests / at one end is Omero & Calliope / Socrates & Philosophy - or memory / Sarcophagus of Diana &d under[sic] the alter / Maggiore of St Eastachio_ the Pope are / the 3 fates the past holds a book the / present the scales & the future the thread / in middle pluto & Proserpine, the marrd[sic] pair / Mercury & Nemesis - / &d at the mouth of the ancient Port of / [?]Ostium 3 altars atton[?] to Neptune for the Sailors / Centaurs [?]d near Hadrians Villa-
• Location: Recto
• Method of creation: Brown ink

• Text: fr lem of N- bu by Ag- / Death of Meleags-
• Location: Recto, below the above
• Method of creation: Graphite

Inscription present: upside down

• Text: Love being the first principle of the Embodied[?] / Soul - see Cupid & Psyche - Prometheus model / woman minerva giving the soul to Man / tree for food, behind them - two figures over Prometheus / are clote who begins to spin his thread - of Destiny / writing on the Globe she leans on a column & on anota / column is the sun dial to mark the fleeting hour / The Standg[sic] figure may be nemesis - or History / & Memory - the Angelical farfalla[?] takes / her flight conducted by Mercury / Prometheus bound to caucusus for having / form'd Man & taught him the Sciences - his / foot rests on Earthe Hercules shoots the Eagle / for which died Kyginas places him among the / Constellations - as Sagittarius - allus on the / Tree of Pomo d'oro of the Hesperides Gardns / Sulla via Ostia 3 miles fi Rome Alixandro / Severus had a villa here was found this hou[sic] / of the Muses, orginally bu[?] three - given to / 3 different workmen the middle figure Philosophy / Clio Aellione[?] Thalia Euterpe+ terpsichore with Pipes / middle figure in a contemplative position is / Erata who presides over the Philosophy+ / Polyhymnia in act of gesticulation - she is on / the Homeric column at Palace Colonna [?] as also dog[?] the / head dress
• Location: Verso
• Method of creation: Brown ink

Identification numbers

Accession number: 832/9.f.29
Primary reference Number: 39668
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Thursday 20 May 2021 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

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