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Luigi Valadier, Pendulum clock à cartel for the Senator of Rome Abbondio Rezzonico, c. 1765-70, graphite, pen, brown ink, brown, greenish and grey wash on paper, 960 x 430 mm.; numbered upper left: “18”. The drawing is the presentation slip for the clock à cartel, inspired by Piranesi and made for Pope Clement XIII’s nephew Prince Abbondio Rezzonico. The presence of the Capitoline She-Wolf, the emblem of the city of Rome, suggests that the clock was designed after Rezzonico was named Senator of Rome on 8 July 1765, while the “French-style” forms point to a date of before 1770. The clock is now in a private collection (González-Palacios 2004, p. 332-237; González-Palacios 2018, pp. 399-403).

Bibliography: González-Palacios 1977, fig. 3; González-Palacios 2001, p. 132, fig. 3; González-Palacios 2004, p. 332; González-Palacios 2018, p. 400, fig. 9_6; Leone 2019a, p. 83; Leone 2019b, pp. 73, 78, 83.