Live Auction 21930Ancient to Modern Art from the Mougins Museum of Classical Art, Part I
GIOVANNI BATTISTA BELZONI (PADUA 1783-1870 GWATO); ALESSANDRO RICCI (SIENA 1795-1834 FLORENCE)
Lot 3

GIOVANNI BATTISTA BELZONI (PADUA 1783-1870 GWATO); ALESSANDRO RICCI (SIENA 1795-1834 FLORENCE)

Head of Seti I in profile, wearing a wig and the sacred uraeus

Closed7 December 2023

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GBP 15,000–25,000

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GIOVANNI BATTISTA BELZONI (PADUA 1783-1870 GWATO); ALESSANDRO RICCI (SIENA 1795-1834 FLORENCE)
Head of Seti I in profile, wearing a wig and the sacred uraeus
signed and dated 'Belzoni 26' (lower right with pencil) and 'Ricci' (lower right with pen and brown ink)
wall rubbing, watermark 'three crescent moon'
17 ¾ x 13 in. (45.2 x 33 cm.)

Queen's booksellers-Maggs Bros, 50 Berkeley Sq., London.
Acquired by the present owner from an English collection of books and antiquities, 2008.

Specialist note


The rubbing was taken by Giovanni Battista Belzoni with Alessandro Ricci in 1817-1820 after Belzoni's sensational discovery of a massive tomb in the Valley of the Kings belonging to pharaoh Seti I and was later used as part of the reconstruction of the tomb for an exhibition in the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London in 1822.