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Italy: Rome: ? Sant'Agnese fuori le Mura. View of a church with a shallow octagonal drum and cupola on a rectangular plan, with modillion pediment and apse. It is probably Sant'Agnese fuori le Mura on the Via Nomentana. Adjoining the church is a long, simple, rectangular building in domestic use.
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Reference number
Adam vol.57/63
Purpose
Italy: Rome: ? Sant'Agnese fuori le Mura. View of a church with a shallow octagonal drum and cupola on a rectangular plan, with modillion pediment and apse. It is probably Sant'Agnese fuori le Mura on the Via Nomentana. Adjoining the church is a long, simple, rectangular building in domestic use.
Aspect
PerspectiveVerso, perspective and plan
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink 63
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1756.
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, brown, grey and blue washes; pencil framing line164 x 253
Hand
Robert Adam
Verso
Unfinished pencil sketch of a cottage gable wall in a walled garden, and a plan of a circle within a square.
Notes
The simple pediment and the tiled apse in this view by Robert Adam both suggest that it depicts Sant'Agnese fuori le Mura from the Via Nomentana, Rome although it lacks the campanile. Sant'Agnese was built c.630 AD and was restored and altered in 1855/56. There is another watercolour view from the rear of this church in Adam vol.57/64. The adjoining building with chimney and washing line suggest that it was in monastic use, and is perhaps the Canonica, restored in 1856.
Level
Drawing
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