Explore Collections

You are here:
CollectionsOnline
/
Capriccio showing a sarcophagus re-used as the basin of a fountain set among ruins. In the foreground is water and in the distance a triumphal arch.
Browse
Reference number
Adam vol.56/103
Purpose
Capriccio showing a sarcophagus re-used as the basin of a fountain set among ruins. In the foreground is water and in the distance a triumphal arch.
Aspect
Perspective
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink 62; in red ink on drawing and album leaf 103
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1756 or 1757.
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen, blue, brown and grey washes; remnant of ink framing line at bottom180 x 237, 4 corners trimmed diagonally
Hand
Robert Adam
Notes
The triumphal arch depicted here resembles The Arch of Septimus Severus, Rome but the rest of the composition has no topographical basis in The Forum buildings. A fountain incorporating a re-used sarcophagus as its water basin also appears in many drawings (for example, Adam vol.56/94 and 56/97).
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk