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  • image Adam vol.56/68

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

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

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