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