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  • image Adam vol.57/72

Reference number

Adam vol.57/72

Purpose

Italy: Rome: ? Mausoleum of Scipio. View of a circular mausoleum above a series of ruined and overgrown vaults, with the Pyramid of Cestius and other buildings in the background.

Aspect

Perspective

Inscribed

Inscribed in ink 72

Signed and dated

  • Undated, probably 1755 or 1756.

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, brown and grey washes; pencil framing line at bottom159 x 235

Hand

Jean-Baptiste Lallemand (attibuted to)

Verso

Pencil sketch of a ruined triumphal arch, similar to the arch in Adam vol.57/73 and 144.

Notes

This sophisticated and skillful drawing attributed to Jean-Baptiste Lallemand was the source for Robert Adam's less sensitive renditions of the same subject, in which he uses a similar wash technique. Lallemand's pencil drawing in Adam vol.57/74 was probably used by Adam in the same way. As the view shows the Pyramid of Cestius, the mausoleum was probably along the Via Appia outside the Porta San Paolo and S. Sebastiano. It may be a version of Scipioni's mausoleum there, which is shown as 'fuori di Porta S. Sebastino' in Piranesi, Le Antichità Romane, 1756, vol.II, pl.XXVIII.

Level

Drawing

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