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Italy: Rome, Villa Medici. Unfinished record drawing of a soffit. It shows in relief a youth with a club within symmetrical foliage decoration. Also on sheet is detail of foliage.
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Reference number
Adam vol.26/48
Purpose
Italy: Rome, Villa Medici. Unfinished record drawing of a soffit. It shows in relief a youth with a club within symmetrical foliage decoration. Also on sheet is detail of foliage.
Aspect
Detail
Inscribed
Inscribed in pencil, possibly in a contemporary hand, Villa Medicis; in pencil L (possibly a signature)
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1760 - 63
Medium and dimensions
Pencil
295 x 440
Hand
Nicolas-François-David Lhuiller (attributed to)
Notes
This may be a panel from the antique collection in the Villa Medici, Rome (see P. Bober and R. Rubinstein, Renaissance Artists and Antique Sculpture, Oxford, 1986, p.477). The technique and the hand point to Nicolas-François-David Lhuiller (d.1793), as does the capital 'L'.
Level
Drawing
Exhibition history
'Bob the Roman': Heroic Antiquity and the Architecture of Robert Adam, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 27 June - 27 September 2003; New York School of Interior Design Gallery, 29 September - 4 December 2004
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