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Academic study for a naked male figure holding a rope while seated on a cloak covering a rock.
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Reference number
Adam vol.7/186
Purpose
Academic study for a naked male figure holding a rope while seated on a cloak covering a rock.
Aspect
Perspective
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1761/62
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil, brown wash on brown washed paper267 x 202
Hand
James Adam
Notes
This drawing would seem to be the sole remaining example of James Adam's figure studies, made while he was in Rome, and possibly in the drawing academy of Pompeo Batoni (1708-87) (see A. A. Tait, Robert Adam: drawings and imagination, Cambridge, 1993, p.61). In December 1762 Adam still had little faith in his figure and ornament drawing and was ' . . . not at all assured of my rules . . . ' (J. Fleming, Robert Adam and His Circle in Edinburgh & Rome, London, 1962, p.301).
Literature
Repr. A. A. Tait, Robert Adam: drawings and imagination, Cambridge, 1993, p.62, fig.51
Level
Drawing
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