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Italy: Rome, the Forum, Temple of Jupiter Tonans (Vesparian). Record drawing of two details of the frieze.
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Reference number
Adam vol.26/100
Purpose
Italy: Rome, the Forum, Temple of Jupiter Tonans (Vesparian). Record drawing of two details of the frieze.
Aspect
Details
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1760 - 63
Medium and dimensions
Red chalk
394 x 583
Hand
Nicolas-François-David Lhuiller (attributed to)
Watermark
fleur de lys in 2 circles
Notes
There are other studies in red chalk by Nicolas-François-David Lhuiller (d.1793) of the Temple of Jupiter Tonans (Vespasian)m and on the same watermarked paper (see Adam vol.26/96 and 97). The two details here show the cyma reversa (see H. d'Espouy, Fragments d'Architecture Antique, 2 vols., Paris, 1905, pl.93).
Level
Drawing
Exhibition history
'Bob the Roman': Heroic Antiquity and the Architecture of Robert Adam, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 27 June - 27 September 2003; New York School of Interior Design Gallery, 29 September - 4 December 2004
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