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Italy: Baia: the Imperial Palace. View of a vaulted arch adjoining a domestic building in a landscape setting, part of the thermal complex at Baia.
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Reference number
Adam vol.57/25
Purpose
Italy: Baia: the Imperial Palace. View of a vaulted arch adjoining a domestic building in a landscape setting, part of the thermal complex at Baia.
Aspect
Perspective
Inscribed
Inscribed in pencil in two contemporary hands on both drawing and album leaf Baia; and in ink 25
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1755.
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, brown, grey and blue washes; pencil framing line160 x 292 (trimmed)
Hand
Robert Adam
Notes
As the double inscription 'Baia' makes clear, this view by Robert Adam depicts one of the ruined structures of the thermal complex that covered this area. The inscription on the album leaf is in the same hand as the inscription on the album leaf at Adam vol.57/18.
Level
Drawing
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