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Capriccio of a group of antique fragments piled together, which include an Ionic capital and a block of highly decorated frieze and cornice.
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Reference number
Adam vol.57/137
Purpose
Capriccio of a group of antique fragments piled together, which include an Ionic capital and a block of highly decorated frieze and cornice.
Aspect
Perspective
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink 137
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1755 or 1756.
Medium and dimensions
Grey wash161 x 308
Hand
Robert Adam
Verso
View in grey wash of a tiled roof with a decorated antique cornice below.
Notes
This sketch can be compared with a similar drawing of a group of fragments by Charles-Louis Clérisseau in Adam vol.57/140 and another in the Clerk Collection, Scotland (Clerk 109). The accumulation of such fragments was characteristic of Piranesi's tombs in his early Prima Parte di Architetture e Prospettive, 1743. The Colonna gardens, Rome, had a similar composition of the pediment and frieze from the Temple of Serapis, of which there are several drawings in Adam volume 26 (see Adam vol.26/52 and 69).
Level
Drawing
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