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Italy: Capua: Carcieri Vecchie. View of the Carceri Vecchie (Santa Maria Capua Venere) mausoleum at Capua, with ruins in the background.
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Reference number
Adam vol.57/18
Purpose
Italy: Capua: Carcieri Vecchie. View of the Carceri Vecchie (Santa Maria Capua Venere) mausoleum at Capua, with ruins in the background.
Aspect
Perspective
Inscribed
Inscribed in pencil in a later hand on the album leaf Between Capua & Caserta; in ink 18
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 20 April 1755.
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen, grey and brown washes155 x 264
Hand
Robert Adam
Notes
This drawing may have been executed at the same time as Charles-Louis Clérisseau's survey of the amphitheatre at Capua, which was dated 20 April 1755, when he and Robert Adam were on their way back to Rome (see Adam vol.57/36). The mausoleum probably dates from the first half of the second century AD and is situated beside the Via Appia. The inscription on the album leaf in a later hand is the same hand as that found on Adam vol.57/25. Another drawing showing one of the entrance ruins at Capua, probably also executed on 20 April 1755, is in Adam vol.57/29.
Level
Drawing
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