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Capriccio showing a shallow, stepped, domed building with pediment; in front is a screen of columns and aedicular niches, with attic relief panels linked to three-bay pavilions with pediments.
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Reference number
Adam vol.55/88
Purpose
Capriccio showing a shallow, stepped, domed building with pediment; in front is a screen of columns and aedicular niches, with attic relief panels linked to three-bay pavilions with pediments.
Aspect
Elevation
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink on drawing 88
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1755 - 56
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen, brown and grey washes146 x 213
Hand
Robert Adam
Notes
The form of composition shown here, where one elevation is partially obscured by another, was typical of the more advanced designs associated with the Concorso Clementino. This can be seen in spectacular fashion in the prize-winning design by Robert Mylne (1734-1811) for the 1758 Concorso (see D. Stillman, English Neo-classical Architecture, 2 vols., London, 1988, I, p.55), and in Robert Adam's palace scheme of 1757 in Adam vol.28/1. There are similar schemes to the composition shown here in volume 9, see particularly Adam vol.9/166-8.
Literature
Rep. A. A. Tait, Robert Adam, The Creative Mind: from the sketch to the finished drawing, catalogue of an exhibition at Sir John Soane's Museum, London, London, 1996, p.22
Level
Drawing
Exhibition history
Robert Adam, The Creative Mind: from the Sketch to the Finished Drawing, Sir John Soane's Museum, 4 October 1996 - 1 March 1997; The Frick Collection, New York, December 1997 - April 1998; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, May - June 1998; The Octagon Museum, Washington, July 1998 - January 1999; Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, February - March 1999
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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