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  • image Adam vol.56/65

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

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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