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  • image Adam vol.56/109

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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