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Italy: Rome, Arcus Argentariorum. Record drawings for part of a pilaster. That on the left shows the foot decorated with twining foliage and rosettes arising from an acanthus plant. Next to this is another, unfinished part of a pilaster decorated with an eagle with a serpent in its beak.
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Reference number
Adam vol.26/70
Purpose
Italy: Rome, Arcus Argentariorum. Record drawings for part of a pilaster. That on the left shows the foot decorated with twining foliage and rosettes arising from an acanthus plant. Next to this is another, unfinished part of a pilaster decorated with an eagle with a serpent in its beak.
Aspect
Elevations
Inscribed
Inscribed in pencil in a later hand Goldsmiths Arch/ at Rome
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1760 - 63
Medium and dimensions
Black chalk
424 x 287
Hand
Nicolas-François-David Lhuiller (attributed to)
Watermark
coat of arms
Notes
This is a drawing of one of the composite pilasters of the third-century Arcus Argentariorum, Rome (see also Adam vol.26/85). There is a careful study by Giovanni Battista Montano (1534-1621) that James Adam acquired with the Montano drawings in the Albani collection (see L. Fairbairn, Italian Renaissance Drawings from the Collection of Sir John Soane's Museum, 2 vols., London, 1998, II, p.606). There are two perspective views by Robert Adam of the Arch in the Clerk Collection, Scotland (Clerk 35 and 37). Both drawings are typical of the hand of Nicolas-François-David Lhuiller (d.1793) in this volume.
Level
Drawing
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