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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.
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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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