Explore Collections Explore The Collections
You are here: CollectionsOnline  /  Italy: Rome: ? S. Stefano Rotundo or ? San Andrea. View or capriccio of a small circular church with Pantheon-like dome and oculus with vernacular additions. It is in a street, with ruins on both sides in a wooded setting.
  • image Adam vol.57/78
Use of images and copyright
Enlarge this Image
Print this image in A4 view  (icon indicating printer link)

Reference number

Adam vol.57/78

Purpose

Italy: Rome: ? S. Stefano Rotundo or ? San Andrea. View or capriccio of a small circular church with Pantheon-like dome and oculus with vernacular additions. It is in a street, with ruins on both sides in a wooded setting.

Aspect

Perspective

Inscribed

Inscribed in ink 78

Signed and dated

  • Undated, probably 1755 or 1756.

Medium and dimensions

Black chalk, brown and grey washes128 x 186

Hand

Jean-Baptiste Lallemand (attributed to)

Notes

This may be a topographical view or a capriccio loosely based on S. Stefano Rotondo, Rome or Vignola's San Andrea in Via Flaminia close to the Villa Giulia, of which Robert Adam made several drawings. This view is closer to a print in Falda Il nuovo teatro delle fabriche, et edificii, 1762, a copy of which Adam owned, than to the present church. This drawing, attributed to Jean-Baptiste Lallemand, emphasises the church's garden setting in a laurel grove.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk

Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.

Browse (via the vertical menu to the left) and search results for Drawings include a mixture of Concise catalogue records – drawn from an outline list of the collection – and fuller records where drawings have been catalogued in more detail (an ongoing process).