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View of an irregular group of ruined, battlemented towers over a single arch, with another arch over a river. In the distance are two ruins, one of which is a circular mausoleum.
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Reference number
Adam vol.21/27
Purpose
View of an irregular group of ruined, battlemented towers over a single arch, with another arch over a river. In the distance are two ruins, one of which is a circular mausoleum.
Aspect
Perspectiveverso details
Signed and dated
- Undated, possibly 1755 or 1756.
Medium and dimensions
Pencil306 x 200
Hand
Robert Adam
Verso
Detail of an antique capital, and unfinished sketch of a column and capital in a vaulted structure, in pencil
Watermark
Two lines of indicipherable letters
Notes
In the opinion of A. A. Tait, this drawing relates in time and place or subject to those contained in Adam volume 57. It may originally have been in the Roman section of Adam volume 57, and belong to Robert Adam's Roman period (1755/56). This may be a view of the Porta Nomentana, Rome, which lost its crenellated fifteenth-century tower in 1829 (see R. Krautheimer, Rome, Profile of a City, 312-1308, Princeton, 1980, p.64). The circular mausoleum in the distance may be the same one that is now in the park of the Villa Blanc in the Via Nomentana.
Level
Drawing
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