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Giovanni Battista Borra, 1713–1770, Italian, View of the Ruined Baths at Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli, ca. 1750
- Title:
View of the Ruined Baths at Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli
- Additional Title(s):
Terme Rovinate nella Villa d'Adriano a Tivoli
- Date:
- ca. 1750
- Medium:
- Gray wash with black and brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 15 x 21 5/16 inches (38.1 x 54.1 cm), Image: 9 1/4 x 14 1/2 inches (23.5 x 36.8 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in brown ink, lower center: "TERME ROVINATE NELLA VILLA D'ADRIANO A TIVOLI"
signed in brown ink, lower left: "Borra Archus. Del."; not dated
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.1011
- Classification:
- Drawing & Watercolors-Architectural
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- arches | architectural subject | bushes | hills | landscape | mountains | public bath | rocks (landforms) | ruins | trees
- Associated Places:
- Hadrian's Villa | Italy | Lazio | Roma | Tivoli
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:27090
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Of the group of ninety-eight drawings in the Yale Center for British Art by the Piedmontese architect, engineer, and draftsman Giovanni Battista Borra, most are of the site in Asia Minor the he visited as a draftsman to Robert Wood's archaeological expedition (see also cats. 59 and 118). However, the drawings do include some views of Rome and Tivoli, presumably also derived from sketches made in the company of Wood. The summer palace of the emperor Hadrian, built between 118 and 134 A.D., was from the time of the Renaissance a source of fascination and inspiration for classical scholars, architects, and artists. Robert Woods in a diary entry described Hadrian's Villa as "this immense heap of ruins, which show nothing but such magnificent confusion and disorder as will admit of no regular description: the remains of the palace, naumachia, amphitheatre, theatre, temples, etc., covering a circumference of nearly six miles." Scott Wilcox Wilcox, Forrester, O'Neil, Sloan. The Line of Beauty: British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century. Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2001. pg. 118 cat. no. 97
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 118, no. 97, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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