Eighteen Views of Rome: The Castel Sant'Angelo

1665

Lievin Cruyl

Lievin Cruyl (Flemish, c. 1640-c. 1720)

Drawings

Eighteen Views of Rome: The Castel Sant'Angelo, 1665. Lievin Cruyl (Flemish, c. 1640-c. 1720). Pen and brown ink and brush and gray wash over graphite; squared in graphite; framing lines in brown ink; sheet: 38.4 x 48.8 cm (15 1/8 x 19 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1943.268

Original Source

Maker/Artist: Cruyl, Lieven
Classification: Drawing
Formatted Medium: pen and brown ink and brush and gray wash over graphite; squared in graphite; framing lines in brown ink
Medium: pen, brown, ink, brush, gray, wash, over, graphite, squared, framing, lines
Dimensions: Sheet: 38.4 x 48.8 cm (15 1/8 x 19 3/16 in.)
Inscribed: Inscription: signed, lower right, in brown ink: [artist's monogram: LC] RVYL del. / Romæ mense / Feb: 1665. ; by artist, upper center, in brown ink: Prospetto dell' Castel, e Ponte S. Angelo, antiquamente, Mole Adriana ; by artist, throughout composition, in brown ink: [the letters A-E] ; by artist, lower left, in brown ink: A. Castrum S. Angeli, olim Sepulchrum Adriani Imperatoris. / B. Pons S. Angeli. / C. Basilica S. Petri. / D. Palatium Vaticanum cum Viridario celeberrimo, quod dicitur, Belvedere. / E. Xenodochum S. Spiritus. ; VERSO, upper left, in brown ink [illegible] [partially masked] ; ON STRIPS OF PAPER MOUNTED TO VERSO, lower center, in graphite: A20985 ; lower right, in graphite: E. 14
Departments: Drawings
Accession Number: 1943.268
Credit Line: Dudley P. Allen Fund
Exhibitions: Seventeenth Century Dutch Drawings from American Collections, Seventeenth Century Netherlandish Graphics, Views of Rome
Rights Statement: CC0