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  • image Adam vol.56/69

Reference number

Adam vol.56/69

Purpose

Capriccio showing columns and entablature of a ruined portico, with a statue of a seated figure on a rectangular base with an urn in the shape of a pine-cone; in the foreground are architectural fragments.

Aspect

Perspective

Inscribed

In red ink 69

Signed and dated

  • Datable to probably between 1755 and 1757

Medium and dimensions

Pen and watercolour; double framing lines, with paper outside framing lines washed to pale grey colourdrawing within a circle of 100 dia., sheet size 112 x 110, trimmed to form an octagon

Hand

Charles-Louis Clérisseau (attributed to)

Notes

The portico, statue and large urn in this drawing are all familiar elements in this series of circular compositions (see Adam vol.56/66). The composition can be compared with the larger drawing by Clérisseau in Adam vol.56/96, and the more competent handling of the figures certainly suggests it is by Clérisseau rather than Robert Adam.

Level

Drawing

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

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