Credit: ©The Royal Society
Image number: RS.9776
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Rustic landscape with shepherd and animals
Date
17th century
Creator
Philipp Peter Roos (1657 - 1706, German) , Painter
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Dimensions
diameter (painting): 307mm
Content object
Description
Landscape with a bearded shepherd reclining with his head supported by his left arm. In the foreground are long-horned cattle and sheep, standing in and drinking from a stream or pool. Above the shepherd is a building in an advanced state of ruin, perhaps the same church or abbey in the equivalent painting of this pair. In the distance is a towered building and beyond the clouds are pink, as if at sunset.
Transcription
AM - MINISTRAZZIONE-GEN-DELLE-REGIL – REMENDICE
B99
145DG
7SB Rosa
HERSTMONCEAUX
B.W.Allen Printer Wakefield
[with ink] Rosa di Tivoli Phillips July 15 73
B99
145DG
7SB Rosa
HERSTMONCEAUX
B.W.Allen Printer Wakefield
[with ink] Rosa di Tivoli Phillips July 15 73
Object history
Donated 1961.
The donation is recorded in Council Minutes: “Reported that the Officers had gratefully accepted an offer by Lady Spencer Jones to present to the Royal Society in memory of her husband and his devotion to the Society a pair of pictures painted by Rosa da Tivoli in about 1650. The pictures, which were displayed at the meeting ar equite small and painted on wood; on the reverse side is the seal of the Italian royal family. Resolved – That the thanks of the Society be returned for this gift.” [Royal Society Council Minutes, Printed, CMP/20, 1957-1961, meeting of 18 May 1961, p.573].
One of a pair of portraits, perhaps intended to represent youth and age.
The donation is recorded in Council Minutes: “Reported that the Officers had gratefully accepted an offer by Lady Spencer Jones to present to the Royal Society in memory of her husband and his devotion to the Society a pair of pictures painted by Rosa da Tivoli in about 1650. The pictures, which were displayed at the meeting ar equite small and painted on wood; on the reverse side is the seal of the Italian royal family. Resolved – That the thanks of the Society be returned for this gift.” [Royal Society Council Minutes, Printed, CMP/20, 1957-1961, meeting of 18 May 1961, p.573].
One of a pair of portraits, perhaps intended to represent youth and age.
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