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Decorative design for a panel of relief sculpture showing two, winged anthropomorphic putti with a griffin with scrolling tail.
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Reference number
Adam vol.55/54
Purpose
Decorative design for a panel of relief sculpture showing two, winged anthropomorphic putti with a griffin with scrolling tail.
Aspect
Elevationverso elevation, plan
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink on drawing 54
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1755 - 56
Medium and dimensions
Pen, black chalk115 x 200
Hand
Robert Adam
Verso
Capriccio in pen showing part of an elevation of a portico with balustrade above and rusticated tower; also a small plan of a colonnaded square with apsidal end.
Notes
Robert Adam's inspiration for such a panel comes from the classical reliefs in either the Temple of the Sun, or that of Antoninus and Faustina, in Rome, Italy, and were used by Charles-Louis Clérisseau (1721-1820) in his decoration of his Roman House or Museum for Catherine II of Russia (see T. McCormick, Charles-Louis Clérisseau and the Genesis of Neo-Classicism, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, 1990, p.187). There are drawings after both sources in Adam volume 26, which were probably acquired by James Adam in Rome.
Level
Drawing
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