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Italy: Rome, Palazzo Mattei. Record drawing of a long rectangular panel with four rosettes set in a sinuous pattern of foliage that emanates from central acanthus leaves.
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Reference number
Adam vol.26/49
Purpose
Italy: Rome, Palazzo Mattei. Record drawing of a long rectangular panel with four rosettes set in a sinuous pattern of foliage that emanates from central acanthus leaves.
Aspect
Elevation
Inscribed
Inscribed in pencil in a nineteenth-century hand Pallazzo Mattei
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1760 - 63
Medium and dimensions
Black chalk133 x 424
Hand
Nicolas-François-David Lhuiller (attributed to)
Notes
The collection of antiques in the Palazzo Mattei, Rome, was on James Adam's 1762 list of 'Good Antiquitys yet to be procur'd at Rome' (National Archives of Scotland, Edinburgh, Clerk of Penicuik Collection, GD18/4954). There is a drawing of the palace portico by Robert Adam in the Clerk Collection, Scotland (Clerk 13), which shows similar panels in a vaulted ceiling. A succinct account of the collection is given in P. Bober and R. Rubinstein, Renaissance Artists and Antique Sculpture (Oxford, 1986, p.477). There is another drawing of a relief panel from the Mattei collection in Adam vol.26/67.
Level
Drawing
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