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View or capriccio of a hilly landscape with in the middle distance, two figures beside a rocky waterfall; clumps of trees in the background.
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Reference number
Adam vol.57/138
Purpose
View or capriccio of a hilly landscape with in the middle distance, two figures beside a rocky waterfall; clumps of trees in the background.
Aspect
Perspective
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink 138
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1755 or 1756.
Medium and dimensions
Pen, grey and black washes, black and white chalks on grey washed paper215 x 280
Hand
Robert Adam
Verso
Unfinished black chalk drawing of a landscape with tree in the foreground, which is possibly an earlier attempt at the composition on the recto.
Notes
This composition, like that in Adam vol.57/152, is perhaps more contrived than accurately topographical; both can be compared with what are likely to be later landscape compositions by Robert Adam and Jean-Baptiste Lallemand found in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York (see C. Denison, Exploring Rome: Piranesi and His Contemporaries, Cambridge, Massachusetts & London, 1993, pp.129-131).
Level
Drawing
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