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Italy. View of a narrow vaulted and ruined corridor, with three arched openings in the side wall and a flight of steps rising at the end.
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Reference number
Adam vol.57/40
Purpose
Italy. View of a narrow vaulted and ruined corridor, with three arched openings in the side wall and a flight of steps rising at the end.
Aspect
Perspective
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink 40
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1755.
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and brown washes286 x 202
Hand
Robert Adam
Notes
This view by Robert Adam may be of one of the passageways associated with the Pozzuoli tunnel drawings shown in Adam vol.57/8, 57/9 and 57/10, which show the ruins around the Lago d'Averno. Unlike these, however, this drawing is not inscribed 'Lago' and it may depict the famous Piscina Mirablie at Misenium, see Paoli, Avanzi Delle Antichita Esistenti a Pozzuoli Cuma e Baja, Naples, 1768, pl.LXII. If the latter the view would have been taken from mid-point in the eastern aisle, looking towards the access stairs.
Level
Drawing
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