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