Heroic Landscape With Dedication and Classical Ruins, after Marco Ricci [Le Bl. 21-25, N.20-25a]
Dimensions:
16⅜ × 23⅛ inches.
Blocks, 7 to 10:
Tones of blue, buff, gray-violet, green and dark gray.
Inscription in tablet at lower left:
“Illmo, atq; Excellmo Dno Dno / Roberto D’Arcy, / Comiti de Holderneſſe &c. &c. &c. / Apud Sereniſs Remp: Venetam pro Mag: / Britan· Rege Legato Extraordinario. / Hoc noviſſime excogitatum Opus in humillimi / obsequii teſtimonium dedicabat / J. B. Jackſon.”.
1744.
A copy in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has D’Arcy’s coat-of-arms on the entablature of the arch to the right with red and blue notes. The British Museum has a copy with brownish-red touched in with water colors in the clothing of the men under the arch.
Reichel reproduced this in full size and color (plate 98).
MFA, MMA, BM, Venice