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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.
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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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