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  • image Adam vol.56/91

Reference number

Adam vol.56/91

Purpose

Capriccio showing the interior of a circular temple with square coffered vaulting. An elaborately decorated sarcophagus with an inscribed panel is in the foreground.

Aspect

Perspective

Inscribed

Inscribed in ink 45; in red ink 91

Signed and dated

  • Undated, probably 1756 or 1757.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, brown and grey washesdrawing within a circle of 151 dia., sheet size 163 x 163, laid/mounted onto a backing sheet trimmed to same size as sheet

Hand

Robert Adam

Notes

A variation on the theme of sarcophagus and ruined circular building with fragmentary coffered roof can be seen in the larger composition attributed to Charles-Louis Clérisseau in Adam vol.56/126.

Level

Drawing

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

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