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  • image Adam vol.56/111

Reference number

Adam vol.56/111

Purpose

Capriccio showing a ruined arch with pilasters and smaller columns with a broken cornice top adjoining a double-columned screen. In foreground are architectural fragments.

Aspect

Perspective

Inscribed

Inscribed in ink 70; in red ink on album leaf and on drawing 111

Signed and dated

  • Undated, probably 1756 or 1757.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, brown and grey washes; ink framing linedrawing within a circle of 151 dia., sheet size 157 x 159

Hand

Robert Adam

Notes

The composition here with the arch and adjoining colonnade can be seen on a larger scale in the drawing in Adam vol.56/102, which is attributed to Charles-Louis Clérisseau. This drawing may be a pendant to the circular drawing in Adam vol.56/109.

Level

Drawing

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