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The frescoes in the Vatican Palace commissioned by Popes Julius II and Leo X

Charles Thurston Thompson (1816-68)

Abundance c.1853-76

Albumen print | 15.6 x 28.5 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852785

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A photograph of a drawing by Carlo Maratti now in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle (RCIN 904238). The drawing is after the fresco of Abundance rewarding the Virtues with coins pouring from her cornucopia, painted on the dado in the Stanza di Eliodoro in the Vatican.
  • Creator(s)

    Charles Thurston Thompson (1816-68) (photographer)

    After Carlo Maratti (1625-1713) (artist)

  • 15.6 x 28.5 cm (sheet of paper)

  • Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

  • Object type(s)
      • visual works
        • photographs
    Subject(s)
    • Science, Medicine and Technology
      • Engineering & Technology
        • Packaging
          • Containers
            • Horn (container)
              • Cornucopiae (horn)
    • Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
      • Plastic arts
        • Numismatics
          • Coins
    • Places
      • Europe
        • Italy
          • Lazio [Italy]
            • Rome [Lazio]
              • Vatican City [Rome]
                • Vatican Palace [Vatican City]
                  • Stanza d'Eliodoro [Vatican Palace]
  • Other number(s)

    Ruland p.206 G.44

    Bibliographic reference(s)

    B(R) : Blunt, A.F. & Cooke, H.L., 1960. The Roman Drawings of the XVII and XVIII Centuries in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen at Windsor Castle, London no. 418