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Unfinished capriccio showing a lake with island, boat and several bathers, with a watermill to one side. Beyond is a small castello with towers approached over a bridge. In the foreground are rocks and vegetation.
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Reference number
Adam vol.54/Series 5/11
Purpose
Unfinished capriccio showing a lake with island, boat and several bathers, with a watermill to one side. Beyond is a small castello with towers approached over a bridge. In the foreground are rocks and vegetation.
Aspect
Perspective
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink on drawing 11
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably early 1750s
Medium and dimensions
Pencil136 x 208
Hand
Robert Adam
Notes
The elements of a castle with bridge and watermill all appear in Adam vol.54/Series 5/8 and are probably derived from a late seventeenth-century landscape print (see A. A. Tait, Robert Adam: drawings and imagination, Cambridge, 1993, pp.10-13). This composition is in the style of Robert Adam's earlier Blair Adam drawings found in volume 56 and like 54/Series 5/8 it can be compared with the large watercolour compositions in Adam vol.56/5 and 8; it may then be dated to the early 1750s although the castle can also be compared with that in Adam vol.54/Series 5/19.
Level
Drawing
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