L30/8/28/15

[Typed transcript available]. From Rome.

1716

From: 1716 To: 1716

Plan not yet to hand. Observations on other buildings. "Upon my lord Harrold's receiving your Grace's letter about 2 pictures to be done by Signor Giuseppe Chiari, together with Sir Andrew Fountain we have been considering of a subject that was not common and that might be proper for the painter's pencil, which hath a good deal of softness and grace, and we fancied that that part of the history of Aeneas when he presents a Cupid to Queen Dido under the shape of his son, followed by Trojans with presents, with Achates by his side, the Queen sitting upon a magnificent throne already softened by the arts of Cupid, attended by her sister and others, and in lentinanza to represent Venus carrying away Ascanius to conceal him for a time ...The painter is to draw a sketch of it before he begins to work upon it and then we shall see what his price will be. Sir Andrew Fountain proposed for the subject of the other piece the continuation of the same history in the catastrophe of Queen Dido, representing her feigned preparations of a sacrifice and she at last ascending the funeral pile and showing the sea at a distance with Aeneas' fleet making ready for sailing ... her sisters running to save her ... We should be glad that your Grace's approbation might have time to come before the work was begun. The painter seems well pleased with the subject".

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Grey, Anthony [Earl of Harrold],
Chiari, Giuseppe,
Fountain, Andrew

CORRESPONDENCE, personal correspondence, Rome, artists, paintings, ILLUSTRATIONS, Wrest Park, Giuseppe Chiari