On the terrace of the Villa Albani, Rome signed and dated 1840
Alessandro Albani (October 15, 1692 – December 11, 1779) was an Italian aristocrat, cardinal, a collector and patron of the arts. He is famous as the commissioner of the Villa Albani in Rome, projected in 1745, begun in 1751 according to Giuseppe Vasi and celebrated as complete in 1763, to house his evolving, constantly changing, sold, replaced and continually renewed series of collections of antiquities and Roman sculpture, which soon filled the casino that faced the Villa down a series of formal parterres.
Production date
1840 - 0001
Object History Note
Purchased from Spinks c.1956. Presented by P.Colesworthy (m.1943)
