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  • image Adam vol.57/88

Reference number

Adam vol.57/88

Purpose

Italy: Rome: ? Palatine Hill. View of palatial ruins of three stories, with a wooden door in the left archway and cypress trees above the ruins on the right.

Aspect

Perspective

Inscribed

Inscribed in ink 88

Signed and dated

  • Undated, probably 1755 or 1756.

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, pen, with grey, brown and blue washes; pencil framing line165 x 252

Hand

Robert Adam

Notes

The ruins depicted are probably part of the palace complex on the Palatine Hill, Rome. There is a drawing attributed to Charles-Louis Clérisseau showing the gateway section of this view in the Clerk Collection, Scotland (Clerk 70).

Level

Drawing

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