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Reference number

Adam vol.56/177

Purpose

View of the entrance façade of Santa Maria della Salute in Venice and the adjoining customs buildings.

Aspect

Perspective

Inscribed

Inscribed in red ink on drawing and on album leaf 177.; in pencil in a later hand: Dogana di Transito and Sa. Maria della Salute. and in pencil and in another hand at top Venice

Signed and dated

  • Undated, probably 1757.

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, pen, grey wash; partial remains of framing line 201 x 795; composed of two roughly equal sheets, folded once; right-hand edge of drawing has been trimmed

Hand

Robert Adam

Verso

Pen tryouts.

Notes

Robert Adam was in Venice from June to October 1757 and he used the city as a base for his visit to Spalatro (see Fleming Robert Adam and His Circle in Edinburgh & Rome (London, 1962), pp.234-42).

Level

Drawing

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