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Italy: Rome, the Forum, Temple of Jupiter Tonans (Vespasian). Record drawing showing two full details of the cyma reversa of the temple.
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Reference number
Adam vol.26/97
Purpose
Italy: Rome, the Forum, Temple of Jupiter Tonans (Vespasian). Record drawing showing two full details of the cyma reversa of the temple.
Aspect
Details
Inscribed
Inscribed in pencil in twentieth-century hand on the album leaf Temple of Vespasian
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1760 - 63
Medium and dimensions
Red chalk
367 x 574
Hand
Nicolas-François-David Lhuiller (attributed to)
Notes
The drawing here is a companion to that in Adam vol.26/96 and both 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). This detail is shown as Jupiter Tonans in G.L. Taylor & E. Cresy, The Architectural Antiquities of Rome, 2 vols., London, 1821 (vol.II, p.17).
Level
Drawing
Exhibition history
'Bob the Roman': Heroic Antiquity and the Architecture of Robert Adam, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 27 June - 27 September 2003; New York School of Interior Design Gallery, 29 September - 4 December 2004
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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