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Italy: Venice: San Giogio Maggiore. View of the canal-front of San Giorgio Maggiore showing the campanile, dome and the adjacent monastic buildings.
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Reference number
Adam vol.57/70
Purpose
Italy: Venice: San Giogio Maggiore. View of the canal-front of San Giorgio Maggiore showing the campanile, dome and the adjacent monastic buildings.
Aspect
Perspective
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink 70
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1757.
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen, brown, grey and blue washes127 x 188
Hand
Robert Adam
Verso
Pencil sketch of arcading with a villa above
Notes
This view was probably made by Robert Adam when he was in Venice on his way to or from Spalatro. He spent some weeks there after 11 September 1757, where he particularly studied Palladio, in both Venice and Vicenza, and was especially interested in the 'Villa of Noble Venetians mostly by the Celeberrimo ed'Illustre Palladio'. Despite the length of his stay, there are few surviving studies of Venetian scenes. This watercolour exemplifies the final level of drawing skills that Adam attained before his return to London, and as such it is later in date than the rest of the drawings in this section of Adam volume 57, as well as being the only obviously non-Roman drawing. However, it has not always been part of this volume. It is overlapped by Adam vol.57/67 and is missing two corners.
Level
Drawing
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