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  • image Adam vol.26/96

Reference number

Adam vol.26/96

Purpose

Italy: Rome, the Forum, Temple of Jupiter Tonans (Vespasian). Record drawings of entablature details in three parts, showing parts of the frieze from below, modillion in profile, ovolo and cyma reversa.

Aspect

Details

Signed and dated

  • Undated, probably 1760 - 63

Medium and dimensions

Red chalk 578 x 417

Hand

Nicolas-François-David Lhuiller (attributed to)

Watermark

fleur de lys in 2 circles

Notes

The details shown here and in Adam vol.26/97 are from the Temple of Jupiter Tonans (Vespasian) in the Forum. The columns were not full excavated until 1813, and the details shown here were widely studied in the nineteenth Prix de Rome measured drawings (see H. d'Espouy, Fragments d'Architecture Antique, 2 vols., Paris, 1905, p.13, pl.93; and G.L. Taylor & E. Cresy, The Architectural Antiquities of Rome, 2 vols., London, 1821, vol.II, p.17).

Level

Drawing

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