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Italy: unidentified location. View of a ruined arch or grotto fountain beside a basin with two bollards, one of them broken, beside a curving pathway overhung by a group of trees with diagonal branches.
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Reference number
Adam vol.57/158
Purpose
Italy: unidentified location. View of a ruined arch or grotto fountain beside a basin with two bollards, one of them broken, beside a curving pathway overhung by a group of trees with diagonal branches.
Aspect
Perspective
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink 158
Signed and dated
- Undated, possibly late summer 1755 or 1756.
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, black chalk, with grey and brown washes (with vertical fold line)214 x 282
Hand
Robert Adam (attributed to)
Notes
The style of this unidentified view, attributed to Robert Adam, suggests the influence of Jean-Baptiste Lallemand, and may be related to the similarly rustic scene by Adam in Adam vol.57/152.
Level
Drawing
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