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Capriccio showing part of the interior of a curved building with a columned entrance through a barrel vault with niches and screens on either side. Above is a bold cornice with part of an attic storey. In the foreground are curved steps to water [?].
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Reference number
Adam vol.55/79
Purpose
Capriccio showing part of the interior of a curved building with a columned entrance through a barrel vault with niches and screens on either side. Above is a bold cornice with part of an attic storey. In the foreground are curved steps to water [?].
Aspect
Perspective
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink on drawing 79
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1755 - 56
Medium and dimensions
Pen182 x 271
Hand
Robert Adam
Watermark
star in circle
Notes
This composition of vaulted and apsidal niches may be compared with that in Adam vol.56/136 and 138; both can be related to the gouache by Charles-Louis Clérisseau in Sir John Soane's Museum, SM P.97 (see Charles-Louis Clérisseau (1721-1820) Dessins du musée de l'Ermitage Saint-Petersbourg, catalogue of an exhibition at the Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1995, fig.14, although the drawing here lacks any funerary connotation and in this respect is closer to fig.67). The chalk drawing in Adam vol.55/80 may be an earlier version of this scheme, and the drawing in 55/86 may also be a source, as might be the plan in 55/42 if the foreground is indeed water.
Level
Drawing
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