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  • image Adam vol.57/160

Reference number

Adam vol.57/160

Purpose

Italy: Unidentified location ? near Rome. View of a hilly landscape showing the foundations of two piers of a Roman bridge in a small river, with farm buildings amongst trees and a single cypress tree in the centre.

Aspect

Perspective

Inscribed

Inscribed in ink 160

Signed and dated

  • Undated, possibly late summer 1755.

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, pen, grey and brown washes. The sheet has three vertical fold lines.174 x 343

Hand

Robert Adam

Watermark

coat of arms

Notes

This unidentified view of an upland spot near Rome may have been drawn on one of the tours that Robert Adam and Charles-Louis Clérisseau made in the late summer of 1755. There is a similar view in the Clerk Collection, Scotland (Clerk 123), the subject of which is closer to the Ponte Lugano.

Level

Drawing

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