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  • image Adam vol.55/80

Reference number

Adam vol.55/80

Purpose

Capriccio showing part of the interior of a curved and possibly domed building with round-headed arches between aedicular niches opening into colonnades. It has a bold cornice and attic storey above.

Aspect

Perspective

Inscribed

Inscribed in ink on drawing 80

Signed and dated

  • Undated, probably 1755 - 56

Medium and dimensions

Black chalk140 x 205, trimmed

Hand

Robert Adam

Notes

This drawing is probably an alternative or earlier version of the larger ink drawing in Adam vol.55/79, but lacks any suggestion of water or indeed foreground. The pattern of niche and screen was probably taken from that of the Pantheon in Rome.The chalk plan on the verso of Adam vol.55/81 may be the source for this scheme.

Level

Drawing

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