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Reference number

Adam vol.56/27

Purpose

Scotland: unidentified location. View of an expansive, flat and wooded landscape with large deciduous trees in the foreground; in the distance is a group of figures beneath low a tree, beyond which is a symmetrical building with a flat roof.

Aspect

Perspective

Inscribed

Inscribed in red ink 27

Signed and dated

  • Undated, probably c.1750

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil; brown and grey washes347 x 460

Hand

Paul Sandby (attributed to) or possibly Jean-Baptiste-Claude Chatelain

Notes

This drawing in pen and wash is typical of Paul Sandby's work of c.1750 and particularly his Scottish views (see Holloway The Discovery of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1978), figs.33-49). Both Paul and Thomas Sandby were associated with the Adam family from around 1746 and Paul Sandby later worked for Robert Adam on the plates for Ruins of the Palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro (1764). Robert Adam was in close contact with Sandby while he was in Italy, asking his sister in a letter of December 1756 'did you see Sandby in your London Life?', as he had sent him a long letter (National Archives of Scotland, Edinburgh, Clerk of Penicuik Collection, GD18/4827). Alternatively, it has been suggested by Dr Timothy Clifford that this drawing is by Jean-Baptiste-Claude Chatelain (c.1710-c.1771), whom Adam may have known through Chatelain's work as an engraver of Gaspard Dughet (see Adam vol.56/23).

Literature

Robert Adam, The Creative Mind: from the sketch to the finished drawing, catalogue of an exhibition at Sir John Soane's Museum, 1996, cat.2

Level

Drawing

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