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Capriccio showing the colonnade of a ruined circular temple with an urn in the foreground above an inscribed panel on top of a broken and empty sarcophagus.
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Reference number
Adam vol.56/89
Purpose
Capriccio showing the colonnade of a ruined circular temple with an urn in the foreground above an inscribed panel on top of a broken and empty sarcophagus.
Aspect
Perspective
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink 42; in red ink 89
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1756 or 1757.
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen, brown and grey washes; ink lines forming an octagonal frame175 x 175
Hand
Robert Adam
Notes
The subject of the composition here may be distantly related to the Tomb of the Plautii, of which there are variations depicted in both the Roman and Neapolitan sections of Adam volume 57 (see particularly Adam vol.57/77).
Level
Drawing
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