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  • image Adam vol.56/86

Reference number

Adam vol.56/86

Purpose

Capriccio showing a round archway flanked by a projecting column against a two-bay pilastered wall, with part of a sarcophagus in the foreground.

Aspect

Perspective

Inscribed

Inscribed in ink 39; in red ink 86

Signed and dated

  • Undated, probably 1756 or 1757.

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, watercolour; ink framing line, beyond which is grey washdrawing within a circle of 90 dia., sheet size 102 x 97, laid/mounted onto backing sheet trimmed to same size as sheet, 4 corners trimmed diagonally

Hand

Robert Adam (attributed to)

Notes

The composition of columns and sarcophagi may be compared with that in Adam vol.56/71 and 56/81.

Level

Drawing

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

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