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Reference number
Adam vol.57/48
Purpose
Rome; aqueduct, possibly of the Acqua Julia
Aspect
Sketch showing view of the ruins of five arches of a Roman aqueduct, possibly of the Acqua Julia, in a landscape setting with irregular domestic buildings in the foreground
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink 48
Medium and dimensions
Pen and grey washes with a pencil margin on added bottom strip 184 x 285
Hand
Robert Adam
Watermark
Three lines of names
Notes
This and vol.57/49 are among the numerous drawings that Adam made of the Roman aqueducts - Marcia, Claudia, Felice. His interest may have been especially fired by Piranesi, who was at work in the late 1750s on his Le Rovine del Castello dell'Acqua Giulia of 1761. Around this time Adam also acquired his manuscript of Carlo Fontana's Ultissimo Trattato dell'Acque Correnti of 1696, which Soane later purchased in the Adam sale of 1818 (to insert: library ref for this). It is also possible that this is a view of the ruins on the Palatine, see Keaveney 1988, pl.17.
Level
Drawing
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