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Capriccio of classical ruins showing the three-bay portico of a temple with two-bay pilastered naos surrounded by ruined walls, with water in the foreground.
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Reference number
Adam vol.56/60
Purpose
Capriccio of classical ruins showing the three-bay portico of a temple with two-bay pilastered naos surrounded by ruined walls, with water in the foreground.
Aspect
Perspective
Inscribed
In ink 3; and in red ink 60
Signed and dated
- Datable to probably c.1756
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen, brown wash on laid paper (142 x 244), the upper two corners trimmed
Hand
Robert Adam (1728-1792), attributed to
Notes
This composition is in some ways typical of the sort of drawing that Robert Adam made in the circle of Charles-Louis Clérisseau, and has been dated c.1756 (see Richardson Soane: Connoisseur & Collector, catalogue of exhibition at Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 1995). There is a copy of this drawing by C J Richardson (1806-1871) in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (P&D 93.G.8/22).
Literature
M. Richardson Soane: Connoisseur & Collector catalogue of exhibition at Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 1995, cat.22
Level
Drawing
Exhibition history
Soane: Connoisseur & Collector, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 6 April - 2 September 1995; The Frick Collection, New York, 30 April - 7 July 1996
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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