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  • image Adam vol.56/81

Reference number

Adam vol.56/81

Purpose

Capriccio showing part of a ruined colonnade, with an open sarcophagus in the foreground and other architectural fragments.

Aspect

Perspective

Inscribed

Inscribed in ink 33; in red ink 81

Signed and dated

  • Undated, probably 1756 or 1757.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, watercolour; ink framing line, beyond which is grey washdrawing within a circle of 90 dia., sheet size 102 x 101, 4 corners trimmed diagonally

Hand

Robert Adam (attributed to)

Notes

The fragments in the foreground of this drawing may be compared with the similar composition of the larger capriccio in Adam vol.56/92.

Level

Drawing

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