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Unfinished capriccio showing a tree, architectural fragments and vegetation in the foreground, framing a ruined building with arches and porticoes.
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Reference number
Adam vol.56/65
Purpose
Unfinished capriccio showing a tree, architectural fragments and vegetation in the foreground, framing a ruined building with arches and porticoes.
Aspect
Perspective
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink 8; in red ink 65
Signed and dated
- Datable to probably c.1756.
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen, black chalk; grey and brown washes (286 x 306), all four corners trimmed diagonally
Hand
Robert Adam (1728-1792)
Notes
This drawing, numbered 8, is from a set, of which Adam vol.56/62, numbered 5, is probably the earliest that has survived. All of these drawings show the influence on Robert Adam of Jean-Baptiste Lallemand (1716-1803). The arrangement of the composition here is similar to that in Adam vol.56/63.
Level
Drawing
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