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  • image Adam vol.26/48

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

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