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  • image Adam vol.56/83

Reference number

Adam vol.56/83

Purpose

Capriccio showing a curved wall of columns and pilasters, with part of an obelisk on a square decorated base with architectural fragments.

Aspect

Perspective

Inscribed

Inscribed in ink 35; in red ink 83

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 irregularly trimmed

Hand

Robert Adam (attributed to)

Verso

Circle drawn in ink.

Notes

The colonnade in the background of this composition is similar to that found in Adam vol.56/74.

Level

Drawing

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

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