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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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