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  • image Adam vol.56/75

Reference number

Adam vol.56/75

Purpose

Capriccio showing, virtually in profile, a composite portico and part of a colonnade framing a seated statue on a base.

Aspect

Perspective

Inscribed

Inscribed in ink 26; in red ink 75

Signed and dated

  • Undated, probably 1756 or 1757.

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, pen, watercolour; double framing lines, outside which is grey washdrawing within a circle of 100 dia., sheet size 112 x 113; 4 corners trimmed diagonally

Hand

Charles-Louis Clérisseau (attributed to)

Notes

This drawing may be compared with a similar circular composition, also attributed to Charles-Louis Clérisseau, in Adam vol.56/69, and with a larger composition attributed to Robert Adam in Adam vol.56/96.

Level

Drawing

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

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