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  • image Adam vol.56/133

Reference number

Adam vol.56/133

Purpose

Capriccio showing an arch with coffered vault and interior columns, with free-standing columns supporting a plain cornice on the façade. In the foreground are arcitectural fragments.

Aspect

Perspective

Inscribed

Inscribed in ink 96; in red ink 133.

Signed and dated

  • Undated, probably 1756 or 1757.

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, pen, watercolour; ink framing line (left hand edge trimmed off), beyond which is off-white washdrawing within a circle of 91 dia., sheet size 93 x 90, 4 corners trimmed diagonally

Hand

Robert Adam

Notes

This drawing is comparable to a similar, but larger, composition of part of a triumphal arch in Adam vol.56/118. There is a more elaborate working of this theme in 'Fantaisie architecturale' by Charles-Louis Clérisseau in The Hermitage (see Charles-Louis Clérisseau (1721-1820) Dessins du musée de l'Ermitage Saint-Petersbourg, catalogue of an exhibition at the Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1995, fig.5).

Level

Drawing

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