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  • image Adam vol.55/56

Reference number

Adam vol.55/56

Purpose

Capriccio showing the ruins of a curved three-storey building with columns, coffered niches and vaulting. In the foreground is a sculpture panel and fragment of a lion in relief.

Aspect

Perspective

Inscribed

Inscribed in ink on drawing 56

Signed and dated

  • Undated, probably 1755 - 56

Medium and dimensions

Black chalk200 x 203

Hand

Robert Adam (attributed to)

Watermark

horned crown

Notes

There is a similar, but more complex, composition in pen and wash in Adam vol.55/99, which in turn is related to the tomb capricci found in volume 56, see particularly Adam vol.56/102 and 104.

Level

Drawing

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