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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.
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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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