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Domenico Amici
1808-
Two Visitors to the Tomb in Rome of "Bertie Bertie Mathew"
1846
Pen and brown ink and wash and pen and black ink and wash, over graphite, on wove paper.
Full sheet: 14 13/16 x 10 9/16 inches (377 x 268 mm); design area: 13 3/8 x 9 inches (338 x 229 mm)
Gift of Charles Ryskamp in memory of Mrs. Alan Valentine.
1992.5
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Signed and dated at lower right, Domenico Amici fece dal vero Roma 1846.
Signed and dated in pen and brown ink, at lower right, "Domenico Amici fece dal vero Roma 1846"; inscribed on tomb in pen and black ink, "SACRED TO THE MEMORY / OF / BERTIE BERTIE MATHEW / LAST SURVIVING SON / OF / BROWNLOW BERTIE MATHEWES [?]RE / GRANDSON OF GENL. & LADY. JANE MATHEW / DIED / BY A FALL FROM HIS HORSE WHILE HUNTING / BI THE CAMPAGNA NEAR PORTA SALARA / NOV.ER 19, 1844 / IN THE MIDST OF LIFE WE ARE IN DEATH"; below that, on the opposite side, "SUB HOC MARMORE / JACET / BERTIE BERTIE MATHEW ARMR / NATI. 15. DEC A.D. 1811 / OB. 19. NOV. 1844".
Provenance:
Charles Ryskamp, Princeton, N.J.
Associated names:
Ryskamp, Charles, former owner.
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