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  • image Adam vol.56/70

Reference number

Adam vol.56/70

Purpose

Capriccio showing the façade of a large building approached by a balustraded ramp leading to a three-bay portico, with a pedimented and shallow domed attic storey above.

Aspect

Perspective

Inscribed

Inscribed in red ink 70

Signed and dated

  • Undated, probably 1756 or 1757.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, watercolour; double framing lines, outside which is pale grey washdrawing within a circle of 100 dia., sheet size 109 x 108, trimmed to form an octagon

Hand

Charles-Louis Clérisseau (attributed to)

Notes

The drawing of an intact, rather than a ruined, palace façade is rare in this set of capricci. It can be compared with a similar composition in Adam vol.56/134. There is a copy of this drawing by C J Richardson (1806-1871) in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (P&D 93.G.8/70).

Level

Drawing

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