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View of a ruined single-span bridge over a waterfall with a series of buttressed walls with vegetation to one side.
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Reference number
Adam vol.55/61
Purpose
View of a ruined single-span bridge over a waterfall with a series of buttressed walls with vegetation to one side.
Aspect
Perspective
Inscribed
In ink 61
Signed and dated
- Undated, possibly 1755
Medium and dimensions
Pen198 x 144
Hand
Robert Adam
Notes
The subject may be one of the mountain bridges around Vespasian's tunnel, Italy, which Robert Adam drew with Charles-Louis Clérisseau (1721-1820) during their Rimini tour of 1755, see Clerk Collection, Scotland, Clerk 137 and 139 (see J. Fleming, Robert Adam and His Circle in Edinburgh & Rome, London, 1862, p.182). The rather spidery draughtsmanship of this drawing may be compared with a similar study in the landscape section of Adam volume 54/Series 5/18.
Level
Drawing
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