Explore Collections Explore The Collections
You are here: CollectionsOnline  /  Capriccio showing a symmetrical elevation of a three-bay portico on steps, with coffered niches on either side. Above are small round, shallow-domed towers, between which is a larger stepped dome.
  • image Adam vol.55/129
Use of images and copyright
Enlarge this Image
Print this image in A4 view  (icon indicating printer link)

Reference number

Adam vol.55/129

Purpose

Capriccio showing a symmetrical elevation of a three-bay portico on steps, with coffered niches on either side. Above are small round, shallow-domed towers, between which is a larger stepped dome.

Aspect

Elevation

Inscribed

Inscribed in ink on drawing 129

Signed and dated

  • Undated, probably 1755 - 56

Medium and dimensions

Pen, grey wash 126 x 121

Hand

Robert Adam

Watermark

partial coat of arms

Notes

This drawing is similar to the lower elevation in Adam vol.55/122; the use of pen and grey wash in both is typical of the style of Laurent-Benoít Dewez (1731-1812), which Robert Adam may be following in these designs. The use of slight corner towers also appears in several compositions in volume 9 (see Adam vol.9/152 verso). The drawing may be compared with the lower elevation in Adam vol.55/139.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk

Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.

Browse (via the vertical menu to the left) and search results for Drawings include a mixture of Concise catalogue records – drawn from an outline list of the collection – and fuller records where drawings have been catalogued in more detail (an ongoing process).