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Italy: Rome: ? Palatine Hill. View of an overgrown, vaulted two-storied ruin, possibly on the Palatine, with square coffering on each vault, with a large rectangular opening in the upper vault and three small openings at the base of the lower vault. In the distance are further ruins.
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Reference number
Adam vol.57/105
Purpose
Italy: Rome: ? Palatine Hill. View of an overgrown, vaulted two-storied ruin, possibly on the Palatine, with square coffering on each vault, with a large rectangular opening in the upper vault and three small openings at the base of the lower vault. In the distance are further ruins.
Aspect
Perspective
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink 105
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1755 or 1756.
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen, grey and brown washes253 x 192
Hand
Robert Adam
Verso
Unfinished black chalk drawing of a coffered vault, similar to that on the recto.
Notes
This view is possibly of the Palatine ruins in Rome; there is a similar, more detailed wash drawing in the Clerk Collection, Scotland (Clerk 104), also by Robert Adam, which may be a view of the ruins of the Sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia at Palestrina and which is inscribed in pencil 'Palestrina'. Robert Adam intended to visit Palestrina (Praeneste) in September 1755 (see J. Fleming, Robert Adam and His Circle in Edinburgh & Rome, London, 1962, p.180). The original composition by Charles-Louis Clérisseau is in The Hermitage, St Petersburg, Russia (2393), and is larger and more sophisticated than the Adam drawing.
Level
Drawing
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