38 drawings, on 23 leaves (in 1 sketchbook) ; 18 x 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Related Content:
View catalog record for Views of Rome and the environs, 1860
http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/10221860
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Notes:
Frances Waddington, Baroness Bunsen (1791-1876), was the daughter of a Welsh country gentleman. In 1817, while spending the winter in Rome, she met the young Prussian diplomat and writer, Christian Carl (later von) Bunsen; they married in chapel of the Palazzo Sevelli (the residence of the Prussian envoy to the papal court). The marriage was happy, producing ten children, and their home in the Palazzo Caffarelli on the Capitol (Christian became secretary to the Prussian legation in 1818, and ambassador in 1823) "deserves to be mentioned as an international social meeting-point for artists and intellectuals. Visitors included, among others, the painter Johann Friedrich Overbeck, the sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen, the poet and scholar Giacomo Leopardi, as well as Thomas Arnold, Julius Hare, Connop Thirlwall, Philip Pusey, and Sir Walter Scott from Britain" (Oxford DNB).
Subject Terms:
Bunsen, Frances Waddington, Baroness, 1791-1876. Views of Rome and the environs. | Palazzo Caffarelli (Rome, Italy) | Villa Borghese (Rome, Italy : Park) | Villa Falconieri (Frascati, Italy) | Villa Mondragone (Italy) | Villa Piccolomini (Rome, Italy) | Villa Rufinella (Frascati, Italy) | Villa Taverna (Rome, Italy) | Architecture, Domestic -- Italy. | Alban Hills (Italy) -- Pictorial works. | Castel Gandolfo (Italy) -- Pictorial works. | Castel Goffredo (Italy) -- Pictorial works. | Fiumicino (Italy) -- Pictorial works. | Grottaferrata (Italy) -- Pictorial works. | Frascati (Italy) -- Pictorial works. | Rome (Italy) -- Pictorial works.
