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Italy: Rome: ? Villa Mattei Celimontana. View of a two-storied villa with pitched roof and chimneys and various outbuildings raised on a buttressed wall, with garden and pavilions adjoining a circular church with projecting portico.
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Reference number
Adam vol.57/79
Purpose
Italy: Rome: ? Villa Mattei Celimontana. View of a two-storied villa with pitched roof and chimneys and various outbuildings raised on a buttressed wall, with garden and pavilions adjoining a circular church with projecting portico.
Aspect
Perspective
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink 79
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1755 or 1756.
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen on grey paper; pencil framing line124 x 224
Hand
Jean-Baptiste Lallemand (attributed to)
Notes
This may be a view of the Villa Mattei Celimontana in Rome seen from the south, with possibly S. Stefano Rotondo in the distance (see I. Barsali, Ville di Roma: Lazio, Milan, 1970, p.385). There is a similar oblong view on grey paper in Adam vol.57/118 that is in the same hand.
Level
Drawing
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