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Italy: Rome: ? Baths of Caracalla. View of a single ruinous vault with coffered lower arch and details of the impost of the upper vaulting; in the distance is a domed church.
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Reference number
Adam vol.57/83
Purpose
Italy: Rome: ? Baths of Caracalla. View of a single ruinous vault with coffered lower arch and details of the impost of the upper vaulting; in the distance is a domed church.
Aspect
Perspective
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink 83
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1755 or 1756.
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen; brown, grey and blue washes128 x 185
Hand
Charles-Louis Clérisseau (attributed to)
Notes
This is perhaps another view of the central hall of the Baths of Caracalla in Rome as depicted in Adam vol.57/82, but is closer than the latter to Piranesi's 1765 view of the interior of the Caracalla central hall, 'Rovine del Sisto o sia della gran sala delle Terme Antoniniane' in the Vedute di Roma.The size of the sheet, the nature of the paper and the style of drawing suggest that this and Adam vol.57/81 and 82 came originally from the same sketch book.
Level
Drawing
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