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Italy: unidentifed location in ? Pozzuoli/Baia area. View of the interior of a ruined hall, roofless and overgrown with vegetation. Arched openings show details of construction.
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Reference number
Adam vol.57/3
Purpose
Italy: unidentifed location in ? Pozzuoli/Baia area. View of the interior of a ruined hall, roofless and overgrown with vegetation. Arched openings show details of construction.
Aspect
Perspective
Inscribed
Inscribed in pencil in a contemporary hand Lago; in ink 3
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1755.
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen, grey and brown washes224 x 263
Hand
Robert Adam
Notes
The inscription would suggest that this view depicts some of the ruins found in the Pozzuoli / Baia area, and possibly the underground passageways of the amphitheatre at Pozzuoli (see Adam vol.57/12). There is a superior version of this composition by Charles-Louis Clérisseau in The Hermitage, St Petersburg, Russia (11774). The inscription 'Lago' may refer to the Lago Fucino and its underground tunnel system dating from the 1st century AD.
Level
Drawing
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