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Capriccio showing part of the interior of a ruined circular temple. In the foreground is a sarcophagus on a plinth that has a panel showing three heads in relief. On the left are figures.
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Reference number
Adam vol.56/107
Purpose
Capriccio showing part of the interior of a ruined circular temple. In the foreground is a sarcophagus on a plinth that has a panel showing three heads in relief. On the left are figures.
Aspect
Perspective
Inscribed
Inscribed in pencil 66; in red ink on both album leaf and on drawing 107
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1756 or 1757.
Medium and dimensions
Pen, watercolour; ink framing line, beyond which is grey wash140 x 100
Hand
Robert Adam
Notes
The sculpture of three heads in relief is also depicted in Adam vol.56/98. The composition can be compared with two drawings in Adam volume 57: Adam vol.57/148, which has a sarcophagus with three heads, and an unfinished capriccio in Adam vol.57/146. The delicate, small scale of the drawings may be compared with compositions in the manner of Giovanni Paolo Pannini (d. 1765) in Adam vol.56/67 and 56/70.
Level
Drawing
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