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View or capriccio, possibly showing the dome of St Peter's, Rome and the Vatican Gardens from the direction of the Piazza d'Armi, with arcaded ruins and domestic buildings in the foreground.
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Reference number
Adam vol.57/55
Purpose
View or capriccio, possibly showing the dome of St Peter's, Rome and the Vatican Gardens from the direction of the Piazza d'Armi, with arcaded ruins and domestic buildings in the foreground.
Aspect
Perspective
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink 55
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1755 or 1756.
Medium and dimensions
Pen, brown and grey washes182 x 300
Hand
Robert Adam
Notes
The large dome with its cupola and column niches to the drum may be that of Michelangelo's St Peter's, and the viewpoint is possibly taken from beyond the Porta Fabbricia, from the Orso Inceronati. There is another, clearer view of the dome from much the same viewpoint in the Clerk Collection, Scotland (Clerk 97), although the arrangement of the foreground is different. The invented composition of this drawing probably places it better in the category of a capriccio than a topographical view.
Level
Drawing
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