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Capriccio showing ruins with columns and colonnade. On the wall is an inscribed panel and in the foreground are architectural fragments.
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Reference number
Adam vol.56/109
Purpose
Capriccio showing ruins with columns and colonnade. On the wall is an inscribed panel and in the foreground are architectural fragments.
Aspect
Perspective
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink 69; in red ink 109.
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1756 or 1757.
Medium and dimensions
Pen, brown and grey washes; ink framing linedrawing within a circle of 150 dia., sheet size 155 x 153; bottom 2 corners trimmed off and on sheet left-hand edge is trimmed to remove part of the extreme left of the drawing
Hand
Robert Adam
Notes
The light use of brown wash and free penmanship characterise this drawing and its possible pendant at Adam vol.56/111.
Level
Drawing
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