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  • image Adam vol.56/37

Reference number

Adam vol.56/37

Purpose

Unfinished study for an obelisk on a rectangular plinth with consoles.

Aspect

Elevation

Inscribed

Inscribed both on album leaf and on drawing in red ink 37

Signed and dated

  • Undated, possibly c.1755.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil322 x 231

Hand

Robert Adam

Notes

This study probably belongs to Robert Adam's period in Italy and can be associated with several other designs in a sixteenth-century style (see particularly Adam vol.54/3-20). In Adam volume 57, there are two capricci with an obelisk as a theme, Adam vol.57/128 and 57/148. The pencil decoration of the plinth here is shown in a curious Romanesque style of decorated arches. In Adam vol.6/90 there is a drawing of a bath in a similar style that is misdated 1744.

Level

Drawing

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