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Capriccio showing a landscape setting of a ruined circular temple, closely derived from the Temple of Vesta (Sibyl) at Tivoli, with a shallow dome set onto a vaulted under-structure, and with a ruined archway between columns.
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Reference number
Adam vol.57/112
Purpose
Capriccio showing a landscape setting of a ruined circular temple, closely derived from the Temple of Vesta (Sibyl) at Tivoli, with a shallow dome set onto a vaulted under-structure, and with a ruined archway between columns.
Aspect
Perspective
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink 112
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1755 or 1756.
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen, grey washes143 x 230
Hand
Robert Adam
Notes
The central subject of this drawing is almost certainly derived from a more distant view of the Temple of Vesta (Sibyl) at Tivoli than that shown in Adam vol.57/91. This view may be compared with the drawings by Charles-Louis Clérisseau and Jean-Baptiste Lallemand in the Clerk Collection, Scotland (Clerk 119, 122 and 192).
Level
Drawing
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