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  • image Adam vol.26/64

Reference number

Adam vol.26/64

Purpose

Record drawing of a symmetrical relief panel showing a face in a central rosette surrounded by foliage and more rosettes. Unfinished double border encloses the panel.

Aspect

Elevation

Signed and dated

  • Undated, probably 1760 - 63

Medium and dimensions

Black chalk 229 x 238

Hand

Nicolas-François-David Lhuiller (attributed to)

Watermark

coat of arms (part)

Notes

This almost square panel is a smaller companion to the drawings in Adam vol.26/56 and 57, and like them it may be taken from one of the temples in the Roman Forum. Although, unlike those drawings, this is not initialled by Nicolas-François-David Lhuiller (d.1793), the style of drawing is much the same.

Level

Drawing

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