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View along a paved road under the arches of the Via Clivio di Scauro, Rome, with the church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo on the left.
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Reference number
Adam vol.56/151
Purpose
View along a paved road under the arches of the Via Clivio di Scauro, Rome, with the church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo on the left.
Aspect
Perspective
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink on right-hand side of drawing 6; in red ink 151.
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1756.
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen, black chalk, grey washes; ink framing line beyond which is blue painted border267 x 380, top border composed of strip of paper
Hand
Jean-Baptiste Lallemand
Notes
This drawing is one of a set of six Roman views (Adam vol.56/149-154) by Jean-Baptiste Lallemand (1716-1803), all of which have contemporaneous painted borders and have central folds, and most of which are signed. There were several similar sets in the Adam sales of 1818 and 1821 (see Catalogue of A Valuable Collection of Antique Sculpture etc. R. Adam, Christie's, London, 21 & 22 May 1818 and Christie's London Catalogue of the Effects of Robert Adam Esq. Dec. 9 July 1821 & following days). Lot 32 of the second day sale of 1818 was described as 'Six elegant drawings in India ink by L'Alma, of Italian Garden scenery', and lot 29 contained several of Lallemand's landscapes, all of which were bought by John Soane (see Bolton The Architecture of Robert and James Adam, 2 vols. (London, 1922), II, p.331). The set was probably made in 1756 for Robert Adam, at the time when he described himself as '... applying myself to these kind of sketches and have already made out a dozen of different views as unlike one another as I could ...' (Fleming Robert Adam and His Circle in Edinburgh & Rome (London, 1962), p.363). There is a view of the façade of this church by Lallemand in Adam vol.57/57 and a more distant view by Charles-Louis Clérisseau in The Hermitage (2381) (see Charles-Louis Clérisseau (1721-1820) Dessins du musée de l'Ermitage Saint-Petersbourg, catalogue of an exhibition at the Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1995, p.116, cat.31). This drawing may also be compared with the street scene shown in Adam vol.55/111.
Level
Drawing
Exhibition history
The Adam Brothers in Rome: Drawings from the Grand Tour, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 25 September 2008 - 14 February 2009
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk