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  • image Adam vol.26/142

Reference number

Adam vol.26/142

Purpose

Record drawng of a woman's head in profile, wearing a hood and laurel wreath set in an oval form, lettered Livia.

Aspect

Detail

Inscribed

Lettered in the drawing in chalk LIVIA.

Signed and dated

  • Undated

Medium and dimensions

Black and brown chalk with white heightening on blue paper 150 x 113

Hand

Unidentified eighteenth-century artist

Watermark

part

Notes

The compositions in Adam vol.26/138-40 and 142 are all part of a set of drawings on blue paper, which are probably copies after antique gems or cameos. The Empress Livia shown in this drawing was the wife of the Emperor Augustus; this head in profile is the companion to that of Alexander the Great in Adam vol.26/140.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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