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  • image Adam vol.56/89

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

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

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