A View of the Inside of the New Prison at Rome Artist: Georges François Blondel (French, 1730–ca. 1791)

1766

Prints and Drawings

On view, 4th floor, Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
Medium

Mezzotint printed in sepia

Dimensions

platemark: 22 3/16 × 16 in. (56.3 × 40.6 cm)
sheet (irreg.): 25 13/16 × 20 3/4 in. (65.5 × 52.7 cm)

Credit Line

A. Conger Goodyear, B.A. 1899, Fund

Accession Number

2022.28.1

Culture

French

Period

18th century

Classification

Prints

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Provenance
Probably Thomas Pitt, 1st Baron Camelford (1737–1793), Boconnoc, Cornwall, England; probably by descent to his son, Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron of Camelford (1775–1804), London; probably by descent to his sister, Anne Grenville (née Pitt) (1772–1864), Burnham, Buckinghamshire; probably by descent to her sister-in-law, Lady Hester Grenville Fortescue (1767–1847), North Devon, Gloucestershire [see note 1]. Private collection, by 2017; sale, Dreweatts, Bloomsbury, London, June 22, 2017, lot 246; sold to C.G. Boerner, New York, June 22, 2017; sold to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2021

Note 1: “A View of the Inside of the New Prison at Rome” sold at Dreweatts in 2017 as part of a portfolio of architectural and antiquarian prints, several of which bear inscriptions dedicated to Thomas Pitt, 1st Baron Camelford. On this basis, Dreweatts suggested Pitt ownership. The presence of a map associated with Anne Grenville, the principle heiress of her brother, the 2nd Baron Camelford, also suggests the plausibility of the Pitt-Grenville chain of inheritance own. For more on the ownership history of the group, including “A view of the Inside of the New Prison at Rome,” see: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/thomas-pitt-1st-baron-camelford-a-portfolio-of-va-246-c-02f4a448bf#
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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Watermark LC: Name of Jesus (IHS)

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