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Italy: Rome: the Palatine. View of a group of ruins on a hillside with a large single vault in the centre and curving arcaded walls behind, all above a wall incorporating houses.
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Reference number
Adam vol.57/69
Purpose
Italy: Rome: the Palatine. View of a group of ruins on a hillside with a large single vault in the centre and curving arcaded walls behind, all above a wall incorporating houses.
Aspect
Perspective
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink 69
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1755 or 1756.
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen, brown, grey and blue washes128 x 185
Hand
Robert Adam
Notes
This view by Robert Adam is probably taken from below the Circus Maximus looking towards the ruins of the Palatine in Rome. It may be compared with part of a contemporary pen and wash drawing reproduced in R. Keaveney, Views of Rome, London, 1988, p.98, and the composition in Adam vol.57/59. The device of the diagonal tree appears in Robert Adam's views in Adam vol.57/61, and vol.57/50-57/52. Both its inclusion and the form given to the cypress trees are typical of Jean-Baptiste Lallemand's lessons and should be compared with the latter's drawings in Adam vol.57/56 and vol.57/57.
Level
Drawing
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