Neo-classical design for a fan

Details

Gaspare Gabrielli (1770-1828)
Neo-classical design for a fan
traces of pencil, pen and brown ink, grey and brown wash, bodycolour with gum arabic, on vellum
9¼ x 17¾ in. (235 x 450 mm.)

Provenance

Presumably commissioned by the 2nd Lord Cloncurry for Lyons, Co. Kildare, Ireland (according to an inscription on the reverse of the frame).

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Lot Essay

The 2nd Lord Cloncurry's advanced political views and friendship with the United Irishmen had resulted in his imprisonment in the Tower of London. On his release circa 1801, he engaged Richard Morrison to carry out improvements to his father's house - Lyons, Co. Kildare - whilst he embarked on an extravagant and acquisitive Grand Tour of Italy, buying sculptures and antiquities, including columns from the Golden House of Nero. It was on his extended sojourn that Lord Cloncurry encountered Gaspare Gabrielli, an Italian landscape artist, whom he brought back to Ireland in 1805 and commissioneed to paint the celebrated painted Music Room at Lyons.

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