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Italy: Rome, Temple of Antoninus & Faustina. Unfinished record drawing of part of a frieze showing two griffins in profile each supporting an upraised paw on the decorated base of an adjacent urn.
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Reference number
Adam vol.26/121
Purpose
Italy: Rome, Temple of Antoninus & Faustina. Unfinished record drawing of part of a frieze showing two griffins in profile each supporting an upraised paw on the decorated base of an adjacent urn.
Aspect
Elevation
Inscribed
Inscribed on the album leaf in twentieth-century hand Frieze Temple of Antoninus & Faustina
Signed and dated
- Undated
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen, grey wash with white heightening on brown washed paper
172 x 783, two sheets joined
Hand
Unidentified eighteenth-century artist
Notes
This unfinished drawing of part of the frieze of the Temple of Antoninus and Faustina in the Forum at Rome is probably from the east wall of the cella. Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-78) illustrated a variation of the frieze as in the Albani collection in his Vasi, Candelabri, Cippi, Sarcophagi (Rome, 1778) (see also Adam vol.26/44).
Level
Drawing
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