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  • image Adam vol.56/32

Reference number

Adam vol.56/32

Purpose

Unfinished landscape study showing a reclining figure, drawn in pencil, in front of a group of rocks from which a young and broken tree in leaf is growing.

Aspect

Perspective

Inscribed

Inscribed on both album leaf and drawing in red ink 32

Signed and dated

  • Undated, probably between 1745 and 1750.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, grey washes191 x 281

Hand

Robert Adam

Watermark

fleur de lys

Notes

The source for this unfinished drawing by Robert Adam is probably a print in the Blair Adam library; the tree may be compared with that shown on the extreme right of Adam vol.56/10.

Level

Drawing

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

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