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Italy: Rome: ? Mausoleum of Scipio. View of a circular mausoleum above a series of ruined and overgrown vaults, with the Pyramid of Cestius and other buildings in the background.
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Reference number
Adam vol.57/72
Purpose
Italy: Rome: ? Mausoleum of Scipio. View of a circular mausoleum above a series of ruined and overgrown vaults, with the Pyramid of Cestius and other buildings in the background.
Aspect
Perspective
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink 72
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1755 or 1756.
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, brown and grey washes; pencil framing line at bottom159 x 235
Hand
Jean-Baptiste Lallemand (attibuted to)
Verso
Pencil sketch of a ruined triumphal arch, similar to the arch in Adam vol.57/73 and 144.
Notes
This sophisticated and skillful drawing attributed to Jean-Baptiste Lallemand was the source for Robert Adam's less sensitive renditions of the same subject, in which he uses a similar wash technique. Lallemand's pencil drawing in Adam vol.57/74 was probably used by Adam in the same way. As the view shows the Pyramid of Cestius, the mausoleum was probably along the Via Appia outside the Porta San Paolo and S. Sebastiano. It may be a version of Scipioni's mausoleum there, which is shown as 'fuori di Porta S. Sebastino' in Piranesi, Le Antichità Romane, 1756, vol.II, pl.XXVIII.
Level
Drawing
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