Panorama of the Bay and Cities of Anzio and Nettuno / Verso: Sketches of Anzio, a Fountain and a Boat

Panorama of the Bay and Cities of Anzio and Nettuno / Verso: Sketches of Anzio, a Fountain and a Boat

RP-T-1960-208(R)

draftsman (artist): Caspar van Wittel, Anzio

c. 1674 - c. 1736

pen and brown ink, with grey wash, over traces of graphite

height 280 mm (four sheets of paper joined together) x width 1225 mm

purchase 1960

Public domain

…; collection Bartolomeo Cavaceppi (1716-1799), Rome;{G. Briganti, _Gaspar van Wittel e l’origine della veduta settecentesca_, Rome 1966, no. D6.} by whom bequeathed to the Accademia di S. Luca, Rome (later dispersed), 1799; from which acquired _en bloc_ with all other drawings dispersed from the academy’s collection by Vincenzo Pacetti (1746-1820), Rome, 1801;{K. Cassirer, ‘Die Handzeichnungen Pacetti’, Jahrbuch der Preussischen Kunstsammlungen, XLIII (1922), pp. 63-69; and G. Briganti, _Gaspar van Wittel e l’origine della veduta settecentesca_, Rome 1966, no. D7. According to L. 2057, Pacetti bought the collection of drawings in 1805.} his son, Michelangelo Pacetti (1793-after 1855), Rome and Naples; ? with group of forty drawings by or attributed to the artist sold by him to Gustav Waagen (1794-1868) for the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin (disappeared during World War II); …; to the dealer Paul Fatio (L. 3701), Geneva, mid-1950s; his sale, Geneva (N. Rauch), 13 June 1960 _sqq_., no. 392, to the dealer B. Houthakker;{Copy RMA.} from whom, fl. 1200, to the museum (L. 2228), 1960

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