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Capriccio showing a ruined circular temple with columns on a rusticated basement; to one side is an arcade and pyramid, and on the other side is a sarcophagus with architectural fragments in a landscape. At the top of the sheet is part of a plan of a circular building with projecting portico.
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Reference number
Adam vol.55/100
Purpose
Capriccio showing a ruined circular temple with columns on a rusticated basement; to one side is an arcade and pyramid, and on the other side is a sarcophagus with architectural fragments in a landscape. At the top of the sheet is part of a plan of a circular building with projecting portico.
Aspect
Perspective, plan (part)verso details
Inscribed
In ink 100
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1755 - 56
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil135 x 159
Hand
Robert Adam
Verso
Ink wash drawing of several branches of trees in leaf.
Notes
There is a version of this composition in Adam vol.55/93 with modifications of the colonnade, and another variation in 55/104. A weak drawing attributed to Charles-Louis Clérisseau (1721-1820) in Adam vol.56/120 reworks the same essential elements of pyramid and colonnade.
Level
Drawing
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