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Italy: Rome: Porta Metronia. View of a ruined square tower with irregular round-headed windows above a gateway arch and three-bay arcading with battlements to one side. It is the Porta Metronia, situated between the Porta Asinaria and Porta Latina.
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Reference number
Adam vol.57/76
Purpose
Italy: Rome: Porta Metronia. View of a ruined square tower with irregular round-headed windows above a gateway arch and three-bay arcading with battlements to one side. It is the Porta Metronia, situated between the Porta Asinaria and Porta Latina.
Aspect
Perspective
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink 76
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1755 or 1756.
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, brown, grey and blue washes128 x 171
Hand
Robert Adam
Verso
Pencil sketch of a group of pilastered ruins.
Notes
This drawing by Robert Adam, like the drawing in Adam vol.57/71, is in the style of Jean-Baptiste Lallemand. Although the Porta Metronia still exists, it is much changed, and Adam's drawing is closer to the spirit of the print made by Rossini for Le Porte antiche e moderne del recinto di Roma, 1829 (see E. Nash, Pictorial Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London, 1968, vol.II, p.214). This view may be compared with a watercolour in the Clerk Collection, Scotland (Clerk 55) that shows the Pyramid of Cestius in the background.
Literature
'Bob the Roman', Heroic Antiquity & the Architecture of Robert Adam, catalogue of an exhibition at Sir John Soane's Museum, 2003, cat.58.
Level
Drawing
Exhibition history
'Bob the Roman': Heroic Antiquity and the Architecture of Robert Adam, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 27 June - 27 September 2003; New York School of Interior Design Gallery, 29 September - 4 December 2004
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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