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  • image Adam vol.56/128

Reference number

Adam vol.56/128

Purpose

Capriccio showing the interior of a roofless ruined building. In the foreground is a statue of a seated figure on a base, scattered fragments and three diminutive figures.

Aspect

Perspective

Inscribed

Inscribed in ink 91; in red ink 128

Signed and dated

  • Undated, probably 1756 or 1757.

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, pen, brown and grey washes; ink framing line153 x 180, 4 corners trimmed diagonally

Hand

Robert Adam

Notes

The use of a statue of a seated figure in this drawing also appears in Adam vol.56/96 and 56/116; it is a stock element in several of Charles-Louis Clérisseau's capricci of ruins in The Hermitage, St Petersburg, Russia, for example 16927.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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