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  • image Adam vol.56/13

Reference number

Adam vol.56/13

Purpose

Capriccio showing a ruined Gothic gateway to a fortified religious building, with pointed arch topped by a crucifix, machicolations, tracery and round towers. It is set in a heavily-wooded landscape, with water in the foreground.

Aspect

Perspective

Inscribed

Inscribed in red ink 13

Signed and dated

  • Undated, probably early 1750s.

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, watercolour, bodycolour245 x 268

Hand

Robert Adam

Notes

This drawing by Robert Adam is similar in its use of colour to Adam vol.56/5; in compositional terms, it can be regarded as the Gothic pendant to the classical scene in Adam vol.56/9. The rococo Gothic design is typical of Adam's work of the early 1750s found in the Blair Adam collection (see J. Fleming, Robert Adam and His Circle in Edinburgh & Rome, London, 1962, p.74, pls.23-5).

Level

Drawing

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