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  • image Adam vol.57/131

Reference number

Adam vol.57/131

Purpose

Italy: Rome: unidentified location. View of a small gateway or one-storied chapel with simple pilasters and cornice, having a small square roof cartouche with a segmental broken pediment flanked by urns. Under a tiled porch is a round-headed doorway.

Aspect

Perspectiveverso details

Inscribed

Inscribed in ink 131

Signed and dated

  • Undated, probably 1755 or 1756.

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, pen, brown wash171 x 228

Hand

Robert Adam

Verso

Pencil sketch of architectural, geometric diagrams.

Notes

This sketch of an unidentified, probably late sixteenth-century, building may be the entrance on the Palatine to the Pentapylum on the Via di S. Bonaventura, Rome (see E. Nash, Pictorial Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London, 1968, vol.I, p.541).

Level

Drawing

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