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  • image Adam vol.54/Series 5/19

Reference number

Adam vol.54/Series 5/19

Purpose

Unfinished study of an irregular and partially ruined castle with bastions and battlemented towers beside a river with a town in the distance.

Aspect

Perspective

Inscribed

Inscribed in ink on drawing 19verso inscribed in pencil in nineteenth-century hand Landscape / Sketches

Signed and dated

  • Undated, probably 1756 or 1757

Medium and dimensions

Pencil183 x 308

Hand

Robert Adam

Watermark

2 lines of names [part]

Notes

This is probably a view of a river town with its fortress that Robert Adam saw during his tours from Rome, Italy in 1756 or on his return journey up the Rhine the following year. It is a companion to the similar topographical view in Adam vol.54/Series 5/5, which carries the same inscription. In a general way its influence can be seen in the castle in Adam vol.54/Series 5/11.

Level

Drawing

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