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Italy: Rome, Temple of Vespasian in the Imperial Forum. Record drawing for a rectangular soffit panel of a symmetrical composition of rosettes and entwined foliage. The border is unfinished and has Egg-and-dart and dentil forms.
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Reference number
Adam vol.26/47
Purpose
Italy: Rome, Temple of Vespasian in the Imperial Forum. Record drawing for a rectangular soffit panel of a symmetrical composition of rosettes and entwined foliage. The border is unfinished and has Egg-and-dart and dentil forms.
Aspect
Elevation
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink in a contemporary hand soffite of Jove Tonante; in chalk L (possibly a signature); in pencil in a nineteenth-century hand Temple of Vespasian
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1760 - 63
Medium and dimensions
Black chalk366 x 487, foldline
Hand
Nicolas-François-David Lhuiller (attributed to)
Notes
This drawing is a variation on the architrave soffit from the remains of the Temple of Jupitor Tonans (now Vespasian) in the Forum of Augustus, the Imperial Forum. However, it is possible that it may have come from its near contemporary in the Forum Romanum, the Temple of Castor. Both buildings reflected the high quality of Augustan decorative architecture. The composition and hand, as well as the inscribed capital 'L', attribute this drawing to Nicolas-François-David Lhuiller (d.1793).
Level
Drawing
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