| Description | Journal kept by John Flaxman in Naples in 1788, consisting of manuscript text and drawings. Contents of pages, as follows:
1- List of costs
2- statement "This book is intended to be given and I do now give it to the University College to belong to and to form part of the Flaxman Gallery", Henry Vaughan 4th April 1865
3- Faint profile of a man, January 20th
4-12 Sketched profiles of man in a cloak, background painted in gray water colour
13-14- Sketch of a sitting woman, basket in hands, background in gray water colour
15- Sketched profile of a woman's head
16-17 Journal extract, "Portici 3 miles from Naples", describes entrance
18- Journal extract, "1st Room", lists bronze and terracotta artefacts found
19- Sketch of a gladiator helmet
20-25 Journal extracts, continues from "1st Room" then onto other rooms detailing various ancient artefacts and scupltures
26-27 Journal extracts, "Paintings", describes the various orders of paintings and comparing them to work of the Great Masters
28- Sketches in pencil, clearest one is of two men fighting
29- Journal extract, continues from "Paintings"
30- Journal extract, "Chamber of Bronze Busts" and "Capo di Monte Palazzo" which has a collection of pictures and artefacts in its museum
31- Another sketch of a man wrapped in a cloak
32- Journal extract, continues from "Capo di Monte Palazzo"
33- Sketch of the top of a column
34- Sketch of "An open chapel in the street before you arrive at the gate of Pompeia
35- Grey water colour of "a tomb on the side of the street before you arrive at the gate of the city Pompeia"
36-37 Sketch and water colour of a carved stone public bench
38-39 Sketches and plan of the Teruntian tomb, Pompeia
40- Back of 38, features roughly drawn figures
41- Back of 39, blank
42- Sketch of the top of a column
43- Sketched plan of the soldier's quarters and theatre in Pompeia
44- Roughly drawn detailing of a column
45- Detailed sketch of the top of a column outside the soldier's quarters
46- Grey water colour of the Court of the Temple of Isis, alongside sketches of terra cotta ornaments
47- Grey water colour of the bath of purication within the temple, alongside a profile of the bath
48- Sketch of a circular builing in an open square
49- Sketch of a vase and a bowl
50- Sketch of a sculpture of a man
51-52 Sketch of a woman seemingly in flight
53- Sketch of a woman in flowing robes carrying fruit
54- In reference to 53: "painted on a chamber wall in Pompeia figure about a foot high"
55- Sketch of two women holding up bowls and a naked child playing the pipes
56- Sketch of four women, two seated one with a naked child in her lap
57- In reference to 56: "on the wall of a house in Pompeia" |
| CustodialHistory | Presented to UCL in 1865 by Henry Vaughan |