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Capricci showing two plans, one unfinished, and a view for a related centralised building with a shallow drum on a panelled drum, apsidal elevations and a central hall with apses and two oval staircases.
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Reference number
Adam vol.55/142
Purpose
Capricci showing two plans, one unfinished, and a view for a related centralised building with a shallow drum on a panelled drum, apsidal elevations and a central hall with apses and two oval staircases.
Aspect
Plans, perspective
verso elevations, details
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink on drawing 142
verso inscribed in pencil in a contemporary hand glia Ld Hoptn - 17. 5 pauls / self 5.8 /
Signed and dated
- Undated, possibly summer 1755
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen
155 x 247
Hand
Robert Adam
Verso
Capricci in pen and black chalk showing two elevations of an apsidal building with shallow dome and flanking bays, one being a version of the other. Below are two profiles of a frieze and a cornice.
Watermark
partial names
Notes
The reference to Lord Hopetoun on the verso probably dates this drawing to the summer of 1755 when Robert Adam was in correspondence with him from Rome about a chimneypiece (see K. Eustace, 'Adam, Clérisseau, Rysbrack and the Hopetoun Chimneypiece', Burlington Magazine, vol.CXXIX, 1997, p.752). The plans and elevations on recto and verso of this sheet are for the same scheme and a variation on those in Adam vol.55/120; similar exercises are found in volume 9 (see Adam vol.9/13 and 68).
Level
Drawing
Exhibition history
'Bob the Roman': Heroic Antiquity and the Architecture of Robert Adam, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 27 June - 27 September 2003; New York School of Interior Design Gallery, 29 September - 4 December 2004
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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