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Capricci showing two elevations, one of which is cropped in trimming the sheet and a section through a ruined, vaulted interior. The upper elevation shows a three-bay apse flanked by niches between pilasters. The lower elevation has five bays with three pedimented doors and three domes above on decorated attic panels. The two smaller of these have cupolas.
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Reference number
Adam vol.55/139
Purpose
Capricci showing two elevations, one of which is cropped in trimming the sheet and a section through a ruined, vaulted interior. The upper elevation shows a three-bay apse flanked by niches between pilasters. The lower elevation has five bays with three pedimented doors and three domes above on decorated attic panels. The two smaller of these have cupolas.
Aspect
Elevations, section
verso plan
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink on drawing 139
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1755 - 56
Medium and dimensions
Pen, black chalk
158 x 111
Hand
Robert Adam and attributed to Jean-Baptiste Lallemand
Verso
Unfinished capriccio in pen and black chalk showing a plan of a building with a central hall, two oval staircases and an entrance between projecting wings.
Watermark
coat of arms [remains]
Notes
The small section in chalk is probably not in Robert Adam's hand and it may be a sketch for Adam to work up, as is the case in Adam vol.55/97, and like that drawing it may be by Jean-Baptiste Lallemand (1716-1803). There are larger pen drawings by Robert Adam for such vaulted rooms in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (see A. Rowan, Catalogues of Architectural Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Robert Adam, London, 1988, p.33). The lower elevation may be compared with that in Adam vol.55/129.
Level
Drawing
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