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Italy: Rome: unidentified location. View from a battlemented wall of a tall square tower in two stages, surrounded by a machicolated wall enclosing a garden containing trees, probably on the edge of Rome.
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Reference number
Adam vol.57/111
Purpose
Italy: Rome: unidentified location. View from a battlemented wall of a tall square tower in two stages, surrounded by a machicolated wall enclosing a garden containing trees, probably on the edge of Rome.
Aspect
Perspective
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink 111 (altered from 110 by a contemporary hand)
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1755 or 1756.
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, grey and brown washes144 x 238
Hand
Jean-Baptiste Lallemand (attributed to)
Notes
The ungainly tower in this view is presumably set on the edge of Rome beside the Aurelian Walls. A similar type of structure is depicted in Adam vol.57/56 and 57/108, and the building also appears in the background of Adam vol.57/123, which may suggest its location is between Rome and Albano. There is an account of such Roman towers in R. Krautheimer, Rome, Profile of a City, 312-1308, Princeton, 1980, pp.289-310.
Level
Drawing
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