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Capriccio showing an interior wall below the remains of a coffered ceiling with three-bay openings alternating with a doorway bay, architectural fragments and vegetation.
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Reference number
Adam vol.56/74
Purpose
Capriccio showing an interior wall below the remains of a coffered ceiling with three-bay openings alternating with a doorway bay, architectural fragments and vegetation.
Aspect
Perspective
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink 23; in red ink 74
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1756 or 1757.
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen, watercolour; ink framing line103 x 113
Hand
Robert Adam (attributed to)
Notes
This drawing attributed to Robert Adam incorporates a smaller version of the architectural setting of the larger and more elaborate composition attributed to Charles-Louis Clérisseau in Adam vol. 56/126.
Level
Drawing
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