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  • image Adam vol.55/98

Reference number

Adam vol.55/98

Purpose

Capriccio showing the interior of a ruined, domed temple with columns, niche and pedimented doorway, which is beside a temple front of two bays on a vault, and is set within a landscape. In the foreground are architectural fragments; beneath trees is an urn on a pedestal.

Aspect

Perspective

Inscribed

Inscribed in ink on drawing 98

Signed and dated

  • Undated, probably 1755 - 56

Medium and dimensions

Pen, grey wash170 x 190

Hand

Robert Adam

Notes

This drawing is a companion to a similar composition in wash in Adam vol.55/99, which presents another view of a ruined classical interior. The drawing may also be associated with several of the watercolours attributed to Charles-Louis Clérisseau (1721-1820) in volume 56 that take the sarcophagus as their theme.

Level

Drawing

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