In/A uc-nrlf 3760 00 CO ^ SCIENCE AND ART DEPARTMENT OF THE COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL ON EDUCATION, SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM. EXCHANGE^ ^= — =^ r, AUG 30 une C AT ALO GU E COLOURED DRAWINGS Ai\D ENGMYIXGS ANCIENT MOSAICS, MADE FOR, AND COLLECTED BY, THE LATE DR. EGBERT WOLLASTON ; AND PRESENTED TO THE SOUTH KENSIXGTON 3IUSEUM BY MES. WOLLASTOIS^. 1867. LONDON: RINTED BY GEORGE E. EYRE AND WILLIAM SPOTTISWOODE, PKINTEBS TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT AIAJESTT. AND SOLD BY CHAPMAN & HALL, AGENI3 TO THE DEPAETJIEXT FOE THE SALE OF EXAilPIES, 193, PICCADILLY, LONDON. 1870. S4945. Price Twopence. KB 4^ ■^']^' Digitized by tine Internet Archive in 2008 witii funding from IVIicrosoft Corporation http://www.archive.org/details/catalogueofcolouOOvictricli /« 5 7^^ /6- PRELIMINARY NOTICE OF THE COLLECTION. The collection of drawings and engravings enumerated in the following catalogue was formed by tiie late Robert Wollaston, M.D., and after his death was presented by Mrs. Wollaston, in 1867, to the National Art Library of the South Kensington Museum. During many years Dr. Wollaston had interested himself in visiting and examining the remains of ancient mosaic work still existing in Great Britain and on the Continent, and had gradually accumulated a very interesting series of illustrations of some of the most remarkable works or fragments known to be extant. The valuable results of his long continued labour form a collection of nearly 300 drawings and engravings, some of them on a large scale and coloured after the original objects. These are now deposited according to the express wish of Dr. Wollaston — carried into effect by his widow — in the Art Library of the South Kensington Museum, for the use of students in the Schools of Art and the public. The collection represents, with a few inconsiderable exceptions, what are commonly known as antique mosaics, that is, works previous to the earl}'- Christian epoch, and belonging for the most part to the dominion of Pagan Rome, The early mosaics that succeeded Roman art or were sometimes contemporaneous with it, such as those in the churches at Rome, Ravenna, &c., and the frequent and beautiful Opus Alexandrinum, are noL illustrated in this collection, neither do the mosaics of the later Mediseval time, or of the Renaissance, or of modern periods, come within its scope. It is, therefore, definite in its range and fairly complete within its limits. The engravings have been gathered from all available sources ; the drawings were many of them made by artists employed by Dr. Wollaston, and some, especially those by Italian draughtsmen, are extremely well executed. As the value and fitness of mosaic decoration for our Avails have of late begun to be recognized in this country, and as the history and practice of the art are consequently a 2 2393B4 '.'"'*'.. exciting attention, it becomes of importance to artists or students to have access to a tolerably complete series of illustrations of what was accomplished by the ancient Romans, who, more than all other nations, employed mosaic decoration in both public and private edifices. The present collection includes 198 coloured drawings, 61 engravings, eight lithographs, and three photographs ; of these upwards of 80 represent mosaics discovered at various times in Great Britain, and for the most part preserved either hi situ, or, in local or national Museums. The re- mainder represents Avorks discovered in various parts of the wide extent of the ancient Roman Empire ; the greatest number, as might be expected, in Rome and its neigh- bourhood, and in Pompeii ; others that have been found in Africa, Spain, Syria, Halicarnassus, the ancient Helvetia, &c. ; in fact from the vast circuit over which the Romans extended a permanent dominion, carrying with them, in some degree at least, wherever their footing was made secure, their civilization and their luxury. The mosaic work illustrated in this collection is for the most part executed in tesserre of variously-shaped and coloured stones and marbles — the material wliich was most employed during the continuance of the classical taste. A few examples also occur of the use of the glass mosaic, which, though employed by the Romans, may be con- sidered more especially characteristic of tlie Byzantine style ; this glass mosaic was frequently eni-iched with gold, laid on the surface of each tessera, and then coated with a thin film of pure colourless glass to secure the preserva- tion and permanent bi'ightness of the metal. The minute mosaic in hard or precious stones, jf^i^^re dure, so well known as a modern Florentine and Roman art, is repre- sented by an illustration of the work commonly called " Pliny's Doves," preserved in the Museum of the Capitol at Rome, and by a few other examples. CATALOGUE. DIVISION I. MOSAICS FOUND IN ENGLAND AND WALES. Antique Eoman. Arranged in the alphabetical order of Counties. 1. Dorsetshire. 1, Male and female musicians. Near Sherborne. Drawing, 2. Geometrical medallion. Dorchester, Drawingr. 3, Figures and heads. Frampton, Drawing. 2. Essex. 4. to 46. Geometrical rectangles. Colchester. Drawing. 5. Geometrical octagon. Colchester. Drawing. 3. Gloucestershire. 6, Animals and heads. Dyer St., Cirencester. Drawing. ^-7. Orpheus and animals. Barton, Cirencester. Drawing. 8. The Seasons, with Act?eon, Bacchus, and other figures. Cirencester. Drawing. 9. Head of Ceres, enlarged. Cirencester. Drawing. 10. and 10a. Figures and marine monsters. Dyer St., Cirencester. Drawing. Guilloche pattern on wall. XJriconium (Wroxeter). Drawing. r 11. Orpheus and animals. Woodchester. Drawing. 12. Bacchanals and other figures. Woodchester. Drawing. 13 to 13<:/, Geometrical rectangles, Woodchester. Drawing. 14. Fishes, with meander border. Witcombe. Drawing. 15, Birds and animals, Withington. (In the British Museum.) Drawing. 4. Hampshire. 16. Geometrical rectangle. Abbot's Ann. Drawing. 17. Head of Mars. Bramdean. Drawing. 18. Head of Medusa, with busts of eight Deities, &c. (restored.) Bramdean. Drawing. 19. Boys wrestling, heads, Szc. Bramdean. Drawing. 20. Ariadne and panther, heads, &c, Thruxton. Drawing. 5. Leicestershire. 21. Cupid and another figure, with a stag. Leicester. Coloured lithograph. 22. Geometrical patterns. Leicester. Coloured lithograph. 6. Lincolnshire, 23. Geometrical rectangle, Denton, near Grantham. Drawing. 24. Orpheus and animals, &c. Horkstow. Drawing. 25. Head of Apollo, with radiated compartments contain- ing medallions of Bacchanals, Nereids, «fec. (restored by Flaxman). Horkstow. Drawing. 26. Geometrical rectangle. Roxby. Drawing. 27. Geometrical rectangle. Scampton. Coloured photo- graph. 28. Geometrical rectangle. Scampton. Drawing. 29. Orpheus and animals. Winterton. Drawing. 80, Head of Ceres, &c. Winterton. Drawing. 30"^ and 30"^^, The two foregoing, enlarged. Winterton. Coloured engraving. 7. Middlesex (London). 3). Geometrical rectangle. Threadneedle St. Drawing. 32. Geometrical rectangle. Threadneedle St. Drawing. 33. Geometrical rectangle. Found under the Bank of England. Drawing. 34. Geometrical rectangle. Broad St. Drawing. 35. to 35e. Fragments, various. Broad St, (In the Crystal Palace.) Drawing, 36. Bacchus and tiger, &c. Leadenhall St. Coloured en- graving. 37. Peacock and Glnochoe, with guilloche border. Fen- church Street. (In the Britif-h Museum.) Drawing. 38. Geometrical pattern. (In the British Museum.) Draw- incf. 7, 39. Geometrical pattern, with meander border. Drawing. 40. Geometrical rectangle. Drawing. Locality uncertain. 41. Landscape, with man killing a goat, &c. (In the South Kensington Museum). Drawing. 42. Flower, in hexagonal compartment. (In the South Kensington Museum.) Drawing. 8. NOKTHAMPTONSHIRE. 43. Vase and geometrical patterns. Caistor. Drawing. 44. Geometrical rectangle. Caistor. Drawing. 45. Geometrical rectangle. Cotterstock. Coloured en- graving. 46. Vase, &c. Cotterstock. Drawing. 47. Geometrical rectangle. Apthorpe Park, Wansford. Coloured engraving. 9. Nottinghamshire. 48. Meleager and Atalanta. Mansfield Woodhouse. Coloured engraving. 49. Geometrical rectangle. Mansfield Woodhouse. Dra" ploughing. Drawing. 16 4. J Ital}^ Men and animals. Drawing 165 and 165«. Rome. Birds pecking clusters of fruit. From Tivoli. Drawing. And, Landscape with animals. Found on the Aventine. Drawinsr. 166. Rome. Females riding on sea monsters, &c. Found near the Circus Maximus. Drawing, 167. Rome, Head of Bacchus (?). Birds and Masks. Drawing. 168. Viterbo, A tiger rampant, geometrical patterns, &c. Drawing, •169, Italy. Orpheus and animals. Drawing. 170. Italy, Apotheosis of Titus. Drawing. 171. Italy. Geometrical rectangle. Drawing, 7. LiPARi Islands. 172. Lipari, Sea monsters and fishes. Drawing. 8. Rhenish Prussia. 173. Cologne. Heads of philosophers and poets. Draw- ing- 17-i. Fliessem. Fish and geometrical pattern. Drawing. 175. Fliessem. Geometrical rectangle. Drawing, 176, Fhessem. Geometrical lunette. DraAving. ] 77. Fliessem, Geometrical rectangle. Drawing, 178, Nennig. Gladiatorial combats, &c. Engraving, 179. Nennig. The centre compartment of the same, enlarged. Drawincr, 14 180. Treves. Head of Medusa, fishes, &:c., in a liexagon. Colovired engraving. 181. Treves. Geometrical rectangle. Drawing. 9. Spain. 182. Italica. Neptune in his car. Drawing. 183 to 183c. Italica. Four of the Muses. Drawing. 184 to 184c. Italica. Four of the Muses. Drawing. 185 to 185c. Italica. Animals in medallions. Drawing. 186 to 18Gc. Italica. A horse, an ostrich, and boys, in medallions. Drawing. 187. Rielves. Chariot race. Drawing. ] 88. Rielves. Geometrical rectangle. Drawing, 189. Tarragona. Male and female figures, with architec- tural details. Drawing. 10. SvnTZEIlLAND. 190 and 190a. Avenches. Geometrical octagons. Draw- ing. 191. Avenches. Bacchantes, &c., in a geometrical rectangle. Drawing. 192. Avenches. Bellerophon on Pegasus, musicians, &c. Drawing. 193. Orbe. Deities, Tritons, and Nereids, with border of running animals. Coloured lithograph. 194. Orbe. Nereid and sea monsters, heads, animals, &c. Coloured lithograph. 195. St. Gall. Geometrical rectangle. Drawing. 11. Syria. 196. Jerusalem, near. Geometrical diamond patterns. Found under the " Convent of the Cross." Drawing. 197. Jerusalem, near. Lunette and irregular cross. Draw- ing. 198. Kiran, Desert of. Animals, busts of men, &c. Photo- graph. FRESCOES. 199. Rome. Gladiators and heads. Baths of Caracalla. Drawing. 200. Rome. Ceiling of the Baths of Titus, Drawing. 201. Rome. Another ceiling in the same. Drawing. 15 202. Borne. Head of Apollo, and the Seasons. Baths of Titus. Drawing. 203. Ostia. Couch, tripod, flowers, &c. Found in a tomb. Drawinof. 204f to 209. Six cards, mounted with engravings of the ruins of Constantine, Guelma, Djemila, and other places in Algiers. From the '' Exploration Scientifique de I'Algerie pendant les anndes 1840, 1841, et 1842. Par M. Delamare." LONDON: Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. For Her Majesty's Stationery Office. [8253.— 500.— 3/70.] 4