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  • image Adam vol.56/82

Reference number

Adam vol.56/82

Purpose

Capriccio showing the pilastered and vaulted interior section of a pyramid, adjoined by a ruined colonnade, with architectural fragments in the foreground.

Aspect

Perspective

Inscribed

Inscribed in ink 34; in red ink on album leaf 82

Signed and dated

  • Undated, probably 1756 or 1757.

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, watercolour; ink framing line102 x 106, trimmed in top left corner around tab having numeral 34; bottom left corner torn where drawing removed from previous location

Hand

Robert Adam (attributed to)

Notes

This drawing may be a rear view of the pyramid and colonnade shown in Adam vol.56/78.

Level

Drawing

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