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Capriccio showing a landscape with two clumps of trees and, beneath crags, a building in a walled garden in the middle distance with mountains beyond
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Reference number
Adam vol.56/62
Purpose
Capriccio showing a landscape with two clumps of trees and, beneath crags, a building in a walled garden in the middle distance with mountains beyond
Aspect
Perspective
Inscribed
In ink 5; on both album leaf and drawing in red ink 62
Signed and dated
- Datable to probably between 1755 to 1757
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen and brown washes (185 x 304),the top left and bottom right corners torn
Hand
Robert Adam (1728-1792)
Notes
This sketch by Robert Adam can be compared with more finished drawings in Adam vol.56/157 and 56/166.
Level
Drawing
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