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  • image Adam vol.56/80

Reference number

Adam vol.56/80

Purpose

Capriccio showing a five-bay portico with attic storey, adjoining a smaller building with architectural fragments in the foreground.

Aspect

Perspective

Inscribed

Inscribed in ink 34; in red ink 80

Signed and dated

  • Undated, probably 1756 or 1757.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, watercolour; ink framing line107 x 116

Hand

Robert Adam (attributed to)

Notes

The broken sarcophagus in the foreground of this drawing connects this composition to others in the series of drawings that take the sarcophagus and death as its theme; this drawing may be compared to Adam vol.56/71.

Level

Drawing

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