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Italy: Rome: Castello of the Acqua Giulia. View of a curved ruined tower, the castello or nymphaeum of the Acqua Giulia, with ruins at the foot of the tower converted into domestic buildings, beside a walled garden with trees.
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Reference number
Adam vol.57/103
Purpose
Italy: Rome: Castello of the Acqua Giulia. View of a curved ruined tower, the castello or nymphaeum of the Acqua Giulia, with ruins at the foot of the tower converted into domestic buildings, beside a walled garden with trees.
Aspect
Perspective
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink 103
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1755 or 1756.
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, brown, blue and grey washes, white chalk, heightened with lead white, now oxcidised, on grey washed paper; pencil framing line197 x 263
Hand
Robert Adam (attributed to)
Verso
Pencil drawing of a three-bay Roman church with a monumental order, pediment and flanking volutes. It is in all likelihood Maderno's Santa Francesca Romana of 1611, which adjoins the Basilica of Constantine.
Notes
The view is of the castello or nymphaeum of the Acqua Giulia, Rome, a version of which appeared in Piranesi's Le Rovine del Castello dell'Acqua Giulia of 1761 (see E. Nash, Pictorial Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London, 1968, vol.II, p.125). There is another version of this subject in the Clerk Collection, Scotland (Clerk 65), which is also on grey paper with white chalk, but is in an unknown and indistinct hand.
Level
Drawing
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