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