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View of the entrance façade of Santa Maria della Salute in Venice and the adjoining customs buildings.
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Reference number
Adam vol.56/177
Purpose
View of the entrance façade of Santa Maria della Salute in Venice and the adjoining customs buildings.
Aspect
Perspective
Inscribed
Inscribed in red ink on drawing and on album leaf 177.; in pencil in a later hand: Dogana di Transito and Sa. Maria della Salute. and in pencil and in another hand at top Venice
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1757.
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen, grey wash; partial remains of framing line
201 x 795; composed of two roughly equal sheets, folded once; right-hand edge of drawing has been trimmed
Hand
Robert Adam
Verso
Pen tryouts.
Notes
Robert Adam was in Venice from June to October 1757 and he used the city as a base for his visit to Spalatro (see Fleming Robert Adam and His Circle in Edinburgh & Rome (London, 1962), pp.234-42).
Level
Drawing
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