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Italy: Rome, Forum of Trajan. Record drawing of a relief panel showing an eagle with spread wings in the centre of a wreath of oak leaves tied by a ribbon.
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Reference number
Adam vol.26/58
Purpose
Italy: Rome, Forum of Trajan. Record drawing of a relief panel showing an eagle with spread wings in the centre of a wreath of oak leaves tied by a ribbon.
Aspect
Elevation
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink in a contemporary hand Chiesa dei Stt A (remainder lost as corner is torn)
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1760 - 63
Medium and dimensions
Black chalk
180 x 437, bottom left corner torn off
Hand
Nicolas-François-David Lhuiller (attributed to)
Watermark
coat of arms
Notes
This panel is now housed in the vestibule to Santi Apostoli, Rome, having been saved 'from so many ruins' by the future Pope Julius II (see P. Bober and R. Rubinstein, Renaissance Artists and Antique Sculpture, Oxford, 1986, p.220). James Adam knew this church and its contents well, and on his 1762 list of 'Good Antiquitys yet to be procur'd at Rome' (National Archives of Scotland, Edinburgh, Clerk of Penicuik Collection, GD18/4954) he noted the 'Columns portico St Apostoli'. There is a print of the relief as the title page to volume II of G. B. Piranesi's Vasi, Candelabri, Cippi, Sarcophagi (Rome, 1778), as 'nel Portico de S.S. Apostoli'. The hand of this drawing is close to that associated with Nicolas-François-David Lhuiller (d.1793), although the style is rather more naturalistic (see also Adam vol.26/59).
Level
Drawing
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