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  • image Adam vol.56/127

Reference number

Adam vol.56/127

Purpose

Capriccio showing a ruined three-bay building with niches and relief panels. In the foreground is part of a sarcophagus and an architectural fragment.

Aspect

Perspective

Inscribed

Inscribed in ink 90; in red ink 127

Signed and dated

  • Undated, probably 1756 or 1757.

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, pen, watercolour; ink framing line, beyond which is off-white washdrawing within a circle of 90 dia., sheet size 95 x 92; 4 corners trimmed diagonally

Hand

Robert Adam

Notes

This drawing had evidently been placed here in the volume so as to complement the circular composition in Adam vol.56/129. The antique ruins shown are comparable with those in Adam vol.56/99.

Level

Drawing

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