Unfinished perspective showing houses among ancient ruins, with a damaged portico beyond, which has birds nests on top of it. A rider allows his horse to drink from a trough beneath a Gothic arch. The secene is populated with people, dogs and another horse, and drawn within an ink border.

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Robert and James Adam travel drawings
- Adam Volume 4

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Adam vol.4/106

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Unfinished perspective showing houses among ancient ruins, with a damaged portico beyond, which has birds nests on top of it. A rider allows his horse to drink from a trough beneath a Gothic arch. The secene is populated with people, dogs and another horse, and drawn within an ink border.

Aspect

Perspective

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, pen & ink, grey and brown washes on laid paper. 312 x 428

Hand

Attributed to Antonio Zucchi (1726 - 1795)

Notes

Omitted from A A Tait's catalogue and added by Stephen Astley June 2013

Update, 2023:
This drawing depicts the Gate of Athena Archegetis at the entrance to the Roman Agora in Athens. It closely relates to - and is probably taken from - James Stuart's views of the site, both in his and Nicholas Revett's The Antiquities of Athens (Vol 1, Chapter 1, plate 1), and in his preparatory gouache painting now at the RIBA (RIBA Library Drawings Collection, SD145/1). Many thanks to Desmond Kraege, University of Lausanne, for this information.

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Drawing

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