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  • image Adam vol.54/Series 5/5

Reference number

Adam vol.54/Series 5/5

Purpose

Possibly unfinished view of a group of classical ruins showing the remains of vaulting on top of overgrown buildings.

Aspect

Perspectiveverso figure drawings

Inscribed

Inscribed in ink 5; and in pencil on the album leaf in pencil in a later hand Landskip Sketches

Signed and dated

  • Undated, probably 1756 or 1757

Medium and dimensions

Pencil173 x 257

Hand

Robert Adam

Verso

Pencil drawings of two figure groups, each of two figures, which are similar to those seen in re-used sheets in voume 9 (see Adam vol.9/67).

Notes

This view is probably one of the Roman sites and can be compared with that in Adam vol.54/Series 5/19 and the more finished drawings in volume 57.

Level

Drawing

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