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Capriccio showing a broken, strigillated sarcophagus beside the base of a column, with trees and a columned building in the background.
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Reference number
Adam vol.56/68
Purpose
Capriccio showing a broken, strigillated sarcophagus beside the base of a column, with trees and a columned building in the background.
Aspect
Perspective
Inscribed
In ink 11 and in red ink 68
Signed and dated
- Datable to probably 1756 or 1757
Medium and dimensions
Pen and watercolour. Drawn within an ink circle of 910 dia. Sheet size 105 x 1016. The lower two corners trimmed diagonally
Hand
Robert Adam (1728-1792)
Verso
Circle drawn in ink, which was probably intended to be filled with a similar composition to that on the recto.
Notes
This is one of a series of circular compositions almost certainly from the same group as Adam vol.56/66.
Level
Drawing
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