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Unfinished capriccio showing a landscape with an irregular castle approached by a bridge in the distance. Below is a watermill and buildings. In the foreground is a small wooden footbridge over a stream.
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Reference number
Adam vol.54/Series 5/8
Purpose
Unfinished capriccio showing a landscape with an irregular castle approached by a bridge in the distance. Below is a watermill and buildings. In the foreground is a small wooden footbridge over a stream.
Aspect
Perspective
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink on drawing 8
Signed and dated
- Undated, possibly early 1750s, or 1757
Medium and dimensions
Pen, black chalk136 x 208
Hand
Robert Adam
Notes
This type of wooded landscape with buildings can be seen in Robert Adam's copies after seventeenth-century prints in volume 56 (see A. A. Tait, Robert Adam: drawings and imagination, Cambridge, 1993, pp.10-12). The careful draughtsmanship of this composition is more typical of Adam's work of the early 1750s before he left for Italy (see Adam vol.56/6 and 23, and also Adam vol.54/Series 5/10), although it might also have been executed during Adam's return journey from Italy in 1757.
Level
Drawing
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