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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.
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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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