Italy: Rome; Colonna gardens. View of the gardens seen from beneath an arch under one of the bridges on the Via della Pilotta, showing gardens entered by a balustraded bridge above the street to a pilastered screen with pine and cypress trees.

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Robert and James Adam travel drawings
- Adam Volume 57

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Reference number

Adam vol.57/115

Purpose

Italy: Rome; Colonna gardens. View of the gardens seen from beneath an arch under one of the bridges on the Via della Pilotta, showing gardens entered by a balustraded bridge above the street to a pilastered screen with pine and cypress trees.

Aspect

Perspective

Inscribed

Inscribed in ink 115

Signed and dated

Undated, probably 1755 or 1756.

Medium and dimensions

Pencil ; brown, blue and grey washes177 x 124

Hand

Robert Adam

Watermark

part of a coat of arms

Notes

This is a view of the early seventeenth-century Colonna gardens, Rome, seen from under one of the bridges on the Via della Pilotta. Adam vol.57/100 is probably another view of these gardens and shows the gateway on the Via XXIV Maggio.

Level

Drawing

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