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  • image Adam vol.56/31

Reference number

Adam vol.56/31

Purpose

Study of three twisted trees in leaf growing out of rocky ground.

Aspect

Perspective

Inscribed

Inscribed on both album leaf and drawing in red ink 31; lettered in tablet at bottom of drawing R ADAM / after/ S. ROSA; dated within drawing 1751

Signed and dated

  • 1751

Medium and dimensions

Pencil and pen; grey wash; ink framing line367 x 252

Hand

Robert Adam

Notes

This is a copy of a print by Salvator Rosa of 1661-3 of St William of Maleval (see Richard W. Wallace The Etchings of Salvator Rosa (Princeton, 1979), p.246). In making his copy, Robert Adam has excluded the reclining figure of St William tied to a tree on a rock in the foreground, thereby turning the print into purely a landscape study. His source was undoubtedly in the Blair Adam library.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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