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Italy: Rome, Forum of Trajan. Record drawing of a rectangular panel showing two griffins in relief on either side of a large decorated urn. At either end are tiered candelabra; part of an Egg-and-dart border is shown.
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Reference number
Adam vol.26/50
Purpose
Italy: Rome, Forum of Trajan. Record drawing of a rectangular panel showing two griffins in relief on either side of a large decorated urn. At either end are tiered candelabra; part of an Egg-and-dart border is shown.
Aspect
Elevation
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink in a contemporary hand Pallazzo della Valle
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1760 - 63
Medium and dimensions
Black chalk183 x 473
Hand
Nicolas-François-David Lhuiller (attributed to)
Notes
James Adam referred to the 'Freezes Palazzo delle Valle' in his 1762 list of 'Good Antiquitys yet to be procur'd at Rome' (National Archives of Scotland, Edinburgh, Clerk of Penicuik Collection, GD18/4954). Presumably this was thought to be one of them, although it is in fact part of the entablature from the Forum of Trajan and is in the Vatican collection (see P. Bober and R. Rubinstein, Renaissance Artists and Antique Sculpture, Oxford, 1986, p.92, who also give an account of the delle Valle collection, pp.479-80). There is a similar panel from Trajan's Forum in Adam vol.26/53; another panel, illustrated by Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-78), is at the Villa Albani (see Piranesi, Vasi, Candelabri, Cippi, Sarcophagi, Rome, 1778).
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Drawing
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