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Italy: unidentified location near ? Lago Fucino or ? Pozzuoli. View of a subterranean tunnel with vaulted archway and walls showing details of construction; roof in part collapsed.
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Reference number
Adam vol. 57/8
Purpose
Italy: unidentified location near ? Lago Fucino or ? Pozzuoli. View of a subterranean tunnel with vaulted archway and walls showing details of construction; roof in part collapsed.
Aspect
Perspective
Inscribed
Inscribed in pencil in a contemporary hand Lago [partially trimmed]; in ink 8
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1755.
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen, grey and brown washes218 x 264
Hand
Robert Adam
Notes
This is another sheet from the dismembered Lago sketchbook, and, in its depiction of the brick and tufa construction, this drawing is close compositionally to Adam vol.57/3. The drawing probably shows one of the tunnels at the Lago Fucino, but it is also possible that it depicts the interior passages of the amphitheatre at Pozzuoli, two views of which are found in Paoli, Avanzi Delle Antichita Esistenti a Pozzuoli Cuma e Baja, Naples, 1768, pls. XXIII and XXiV.
Level
Drawing
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