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Capriccio showing a pyramidal mausoleum behind a group of trees in an undulating parkland landscape; in the middle distance is a four-bay bridge and river, with other buildings beyond.
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Reference number
Adam vol.56/51
Purpose
Capriccio showing a pyramidal mausoleum behind a group of trees in an undulating parkland landscape; in the middle distance is a four-bay bridge and river, with other buildings beyond.
Aspect
Perspective
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink 88; in red ink on backing sheet 51
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1756.
Medium and dimensions
Pencil and pen; grey wash on grey washed paper271 x 420; mounted on backing sheet 305 x 454
Hand
Robert Adam
Notes
The drawings in Adam vol.56/49-54 are part of a set of landscape compositions by Robert Adam. They are all of a similar size, on grey washed paper and in the style of Jean-Baptiste Lallemand (1716-1803), but sources of the compositions may differ. It is likely that these drawings were part of a larger group since each has a number between 83 and 94, inscribed in the eighteenth century. They were probably made in Rome in c.1756; Robert Adam wrote in November of that year that he had been working on such 'kind of ... sketches...' and had '... already made out a dozen different views as unlike one another as I could ...' (Fleming Robert Adam and His Circle in Edinburgh & Rome (London, 1962), p.363). This set of drawings may be compared with the landscape compositions in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York (for example 1954-14) (see Tait Robert Adam: drawings and imagination (Cambridge, 1993), pp.20-23).
Level
Drawing
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