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Italy: unidentified location. View of a group of rural tiled buildings, including a fortified rectangular tower in a landscape campagna setting. A bent cypress tree is on the left, with rocks in the foreground.
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Reference number
Adam vol.57/58
Purpose
Italy: unidentified location. View of a group of rural tiled buildings, including a fortified rectangular tower in a landscape campagna setting. A bent cypress tree is on the left, with rocks in the foreground.
Aspect
Perspective
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink 58; on the verso in ink Rome: 3d January 1756
Signed and dated
- 3 January 1756
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, grey wash156 x 205
Hand
Robert Adam
Notes
There is another, more detailed view of this campagna subject in Adam vol.57/71, which is probably by Robert Adam after the style of Jean-Baptiste Lallemand. A pen and wash drawing in the Clerk Collection, Scotland (Clerk 185) shows a similar group of buildings and tower, which may be the Torre di Traetto, now destroyed. The date inscribed on the verso of the drawing here suggests that similar small drawings in this section of Adam volume 57 belong to this period and follow those made by Adam and Charles-Louis Clérisseau in Naples in April 1755. In Adam's letter of 3rd January of 1756 he wrote that he was 'labouring at perspective and doing cornices with modillions, viewed on the angle of a building, which has its own difficulties' (J. Fleming, Robert Adam and His Circle in Edinburgh & Rome, London, 1962, p.202).
Level
Drawing
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