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Reference number

Adam vol.26/153

Purpose

Unfinished record drawing of part of a frieze showing in relief two anthemion in ovals linked by foliage to a central acanthus. Unfinished border detail of cyma reversa.

Aspect

Elevation

Inscribed

Inscribed in ink in a contemporary hand Temple of Concord

Signed and dated

  • Undated, probably 1760 - 1763

Medium and dimensions

Black chalk185 x 432

Hand

Nicolas-François-David Lhuiller (attributed to)

Watermark

part

Notes

The surviving fragments from the Temple of Concordia, Rome do not match this drawing (see E. Nash, Pictorial Dictionary of Ancient Rome, 2 vols., 2nd ed., London, 1968, I, p.293). However, this composition is used with minor variations on the façade of Lansdowne House, London (date) and in the description of that building in The Works in Architecture of Robert and James Adam (London, 1773-79), the source is given as the Temple of Concord (see vol.II, part 3, pl.3): 'In which the ornament of the Freeze is taken from the Temple of Concord at Rome'. Stillman has suggested that 'This ancient frieze no longer survives' and its source may have been the Forum of Trajan (see D. Stillman, The Decorative Work of Robert Adam, London, 1966, p.81).

Level

Drawing

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