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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.
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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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