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Italy: Viterbo, Caprarola, Church of S. Teresa. View showing the facade of the church of S. Teresa in its hilly and wooded location.
This location was identified by Alessandro Cremona in June 2013.
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Reference number
Adam vol.57/129
Purpose
Italy: Viterbo, Caprarola, Church of S. Teresa. View showing the facade of the church of S. Teresa in its hilly and wooded location.
This location was identified by Alessandro Cremona in June 2013.
Aspect
Perspective
verso details
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink 129
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1755.
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen; grey and brown washes
230 x 341
Hand
Robert Adam
Verso
Pencil drawing of details of pilasters and two cornices shown in perspective.
Notes
This unidentified view probably depicts an early seventeenth-century villa. Set in hilly and wooded countryside, it is presumably near Rome or may have been seen on the journeys that Robert Adam and Charles-Louis Clérisseau made to Fano and Rimini in September 1755. The irregular domestic buildings that are shown beside the road may be the same ones that are depicted in greater detail in Adam vol.57/133, which shows a similar landscape.
Level
Drawing
Exhibition history
The Adam Brothers in Rome: Drawings from the Grand Tour, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 25 September 2008 - 14 February 2009
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk