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Drawings of Castel del Monte
Catalogue reference: CDM
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This record is about the Drawings of Castel del Monte dating from c. 1834.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- CDM
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Title (The name of the record)
- Drawings of Castel del Monte
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Date (When the record was created)
- c. 1834
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Description (What the record is about)
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Castel del Monte, Terra di Bari. Built by the Emperor Frederic the Second as a hunting seat 1220-50. now belonging to the Duca di Andria..' (titlepage, fol. v). Ten leaves of drawings, mostly pen and wash, of Castel del Monte made on the spot (fol. v) for the Hon. Keppel Craven. The drawings consist of general views, plans and details. The name of the artist, 'Carlo Paris Architetto', is given at the foot of Plate I. The Hon. Keppel Richard Craven (1779-1851) was the youngest child of William, 6th Baron Craven; he resided in Naples, 1805, and in 1834 purchased a convent in the mountains near Salerno (see F. Boase, Modern English Biography, I (reprint 1965), col. 753). A detailed account of Castel del Monte is given in Craven's Excursions in the Abruzzi, II (1838), 324-35.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- Society of Antiquaries of London
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- SAL/MS/490
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Paris, Carlo
- Craven, Keppel Richard
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- Society of Antiquaries online catalogue: https://collections.sal.org.uk/cdm
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/44fdf30b-0b23-4492-9dfc-e65e92863d8e/
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Drawings of Castel del Monte