sht. 85

Giuseppe Valadier, Table clock with Atlas supporting the circular clock face girt by the Zodiac belt, c. 1785-90, graphite, pen, grey ink, grey, brown, blue, green and dark wash red on paper, 495 x 335 mm.; numbered upper left: “93”.

The drawing is associated with the original designs for the clock in Waddesdon Manor (Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire, England). The drawing on sheet 16 in this album and two drawings in the Valadier workshop album now in the Museo Napoleonico in Rome refer to the same clock (Valeriani 1991-2; Museo Napoleonico 2008, p. 69; González-Palacios 2015, pp. 52-53).

Bibliography: Leone 2019a, p. 90; Valeriani 1991-2, p. 109, fig. 4.