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Unfinished capriccio showing an elevation of a statue in a garlanded niche between arabesque pilasters, flanked by free-standing fluted columns with statues on top. An inscription panel forms the attic storey. To one side is part of a plan and elevation of a triumphal arch.
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Reference number
Adam vol.55/133
Purpose
Unfinished capriccio showing an elevation of a statue in a garlanded niche between arabesque pilasters, flanked by free-standing fluted columns with statues on top. An inscription panel forms the attic storey. To one side is part of a plan and elevation of a triumphal arch.
Aspect
Elevations, plan (part)verso plans, perspective
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink on drawing 133
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1755 - 56
Medium and dimensions
Chalk, pen, brown wash189 x 245
Hand
Robert Adam
Verso
Capricci showing three sketch plans in black chalk and pen for an apsidal building. Also on the sheet is a drawing of a colonnade.
Notes
The elevation of this presumably funerary monument is composed of antique fragments from various sources rearranged in a tradition that Robert Adam would have found in work associated with Charles-Louis Clérisseau (1721-1820) at the Villa Albani, Rome, Italy. A similar composition of antique fragments may be seen in Adam's fountain capriccio in Adam vol.55/113. The faint chalk drawing to one side is a continuation of the scheme and is to the same scale.
Level
Drawing
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