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Scotland, unidentified location. View of a landscape, possibly on a headland, with rocky hillocks and small leafy shrubs.
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Reference number
Adam vol.56/1
Purpose
Scotland, unidentified location. View of a landscape, possibly on a headland, with rocky hillocks and small leafy shrubs.
Aspect
Perspective
Inscribed
Inscribed on album leaf in red ink 1
Signed and dated
- Undated
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, grey washes; pencil framing line291 x 469
Hand
John Slezer (attributed to), or possibly Robert White or John Wyck
Notes
The style of the foreground of this view, and that in Adam vol.56/22, is similar to that found in the prints of John Slezer (d.1714) in Theatrum Scotiae (1693), a copy of the 1718 edition of which was in the library at Blair Adam (see A. A. Tait, Robert Adam: drawings and imagination, Cambridge, 1993, p.13). This drawing may be the work of Robert White, the engraver in overall charge of the plates for Theatrum Scotiae, or of John Wyck, whose work appeared together with Slezer's and in William Adam's Vitruvius Scoticus (see K. Cavers, A Vision of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1993, pp.10-11). There is a copy of Slezer's view of Dunfermline, Fife, in Adam vol.56/4.
Level
Drawing
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