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Italy: Rome: unidentified location. View of a fenced enclosure with two wooden, thatched buildings, one having a single bay portico, approached through a turnstile. In the background are the walls of a fortress surrounded by conifers.
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Reference number
Adam vol.57/161
Purpose
Italy: Rome: unidentified location. View of a fenced enclosure with two wooden, thatched buildings, one having a single bay portico, approached through a turnstile. In the background are the walls of a fortress surrounded by conifers.
Aspect
Perspective
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink 161; verso in ink in a contemporary hand non dan pace
Signed and dated
- Undated
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen, brown and grey washes178 x 238
Hand
Unidentified eighteenth-century artist
Verso
The inscription, meaning 'given no peace', may indicate a weary draughtsman.
Notes
The enclosure with turnstile and the thatched, wooden pavilions suggest that this my be a zoo or aviary. There were examples of the latter in both the Farnese and Borghese gardens in Rome, and it is possible that the buildings shown here are the domed uccelliere of 1617-19 by Girolamo Rainaldi at the Villa Borghese.
Level
Drawing
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