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  • image Adam vol.57/68

Reference number

Adam vol.57/68

Purpose

Italy: Rome: ? Nova Via. View along a street with a wall and gardens on one side and an irregular house opposite, drawn from beneath an archway with vegetation on top.

Aspect

Perspective

Inscribed

Inscribed in ink 68

Signed and dated

  • Undated, probably 1755 or 1756.

Medium and dimensions

Black chalk on grey washed paper184 x 132

Hand

Jean-Baptiste Lallemand (attributed to)

Notes

This view attributed to Jean-Baptiste Lallemand is probably along the Nova Via on the northern edge of the Palatine in Rome. The archway is possibly one of the substructures of the Domus Tiberiana. This scene was much altered as a result of the excavations of c.1882 (see E. Nash, Pictorial Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London, 1968, vol.I, p.334).

Level

Drawing

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