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Italy: Rome, Temple of Jupiter Tonans (Vespasian). Record drawing showing the cyma reversa and astragal of a classical entablature showing stylised ovals with leaf decoration in profile.
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Reference number
Adam vol.26/157
Purpose
Italy: Rome, Temple of Jupiter Tonans (Vespasian). Record drawing showing the cyma reversa and astragal of a classical entablature showing stylised ovals with leaf decoration in profile.
Aspect
Elevation
Signed and dated
- Undated
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen, grey washes; pen framing line
433 x 564
Hand
Unidentified eighteenth-century artist
Notes
This drawing shows the same cyma reversa as appears in Adam vol.26/97, which is attributed to Nicolas-François-David Lhuiller (d.1793) and identified as the Temple of Jupiter Tonans (Vespasian) in the Roman Forum, although the pattern of the astragal here is different and less acurate. The draughtsmanship and technique are sharper than that in Adam vol.26/97 and it is less likely to be in Lhuiller's hand. It is closer to the style found in the early seventeenth-century volume of classical details after Alberto Alberti (1525/6-98), which was in the Adam sale of 1818 (see Catalogue of A Valuable Collection of Antique Sculpture etc. R. Adam, Christie's, London 21 & 22 May 1818; also see L. Fairbairn, Italian Renaissance Drawings from the Collection of Sir John Soane's Museum, 2 vols., London, 1998, I, pp.317-360).
Level
Drawing
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