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Study of interior decoration showing part of a frieze with two incomplete panels, one rectangular, the other oval, both having framing figures; between them is scrolling foliage with animals and other figures.
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Reference number
Adam vol.26/106
Purpose
Study of interior decoration showing part of a frieze with two incomplete panels, one rectangular, the other oval, both having framing figures; between them is scrolling foliage with animals and other figures.
Aspect
Elevation
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1760 - 63
Medium and dimensions
Red chalk
226 x 399
Hand
Nicolas-François-David Lhuiller (attributed to)
Notes
This frieze is unlikely to be antique and more probably is of the sixteenth century by Perino del Vaga (1501-47), perhaps inspired by similar compositions in the Vasari Album, which James Adam may have acquired when he was in Rome (see L. Fairbairn, Italian Renaissance Drawings from the Collection of the Sir John Soane's Museum, 2 vols., London, 1998, II, p.400). There are several compositions by Giuseppe Manocchi (1731-82) after 'perino del vargo' in album three of the Hardwick drawings in the RIBA (see 3/19, J. Lever, ed., Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects, L-N, London, 1973, and a few sixteenth-century designs, 3/36). Along with the drawings of the interior of the Villa Albani, Rome (see Adam vol.26/46), and of the Cesi chapel of Santa Maria della Pace, Rome (see Adam vol.26/108-9), this drawing is probably one of the few decorative drawings not after the antique in this Adam volume.
Level
Drawing
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