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Italy: Rome: unidentified location. View of a terraced garden and three small towers, one of which is in the distance, and with small irregular and tiled buildings in a garden in the foreground.
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Reference number
Adam vol.57/84
Purpose
Italy: Rome: unidentified location. View of a terraced garden and three small towers, one of which is in the distance, and with small irregular and tiled buildings in a garden in the foreground.
Aspect
Perspective
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink 84
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1755 or 1756.
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen; grey and brown washes111 x 154
Hand
Robert Adam
Notes
The various towers in this drawing suggest that this scene is part of medieval Rome, of which there is a good visual account in R. Krautheimer, Rome, Profile of a City, 312-1308, Princeton, 1980, pp.289-310.
Level
Drawing
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