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Italy: environs of Rome: unidentified location. View of an antique mausoleum with machicolations, adjoining a church with campanile, and other domestic buildings beside a tree; the viewpoint is from a stream crossed by a single-bay bridge.
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Reference number
Adam vol.57/92
Purpose
Italy: environs of Rome: unidentified location. View of an antique mausoleum with machicolations, adjoining a church with campanile, and other domestic buildings beside a tree; the viewpoint is from a stream crossed by a single-bay bridge.
Aspect
Perspective
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink 92
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1755 or 1756.
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen; grey and brown washes; pencil framing line142 x 209
Hand
Robert Adam
Verso
Abstract diagram in pencil.
Notes
The circular mausoleum shown is of the same type as the Plautii and Caecilia Metella mausolea, both of which Robert Adam drew. The longitudinal church and smaller buildings suggest some sort of convent, in the country around Rome, rather than in the Roman suburbs. The view may be another version or variation of the building in Adam vol.57/93.
Level
Drawing
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