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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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