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Italy: ? Tivoli. View of the top of a waterfall, with rocks in the foreground and trees in the background.
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Reference number
Adam vol.57/75
Purpose
Italy: ? Tivoli. View of the top of a waterfall, with rocks in the foreground and trees in the background.
Aspect
Perspective
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink 75
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1755 or 1756.
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, black chalk, brown and grey washes220 x 313
Hand
Robert Adam
Watermark
bird on monti
Notes
This view may depict one of the numerous waterfalls around Tivoli, which both Robert Adam and Charles-Louis Clérisseau drew. There is a similar view in chalk and brown wash, probably by Clérisseau, in the Clerk Collection, Scotland (Clerk 115) that shows the complete waterfall with figures in the foreground. Both drawings may be compared with the waterfall at Terni, a fine drawing of which is in Adam vol.57/149, which Adam either collected or commissioned. Adam was frequently at Tivoli to see the painter Allan Ramsay (1713-1784), who had an apartment in the Villa d'Este (see J. Fleming, Robert Adam and His Circle in Edinburgh & Rome, London, 1962, p.174). He visited Terni in September 1755 (see Fleming, 1962, op. cit. p.180).
Level
Drawing
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