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  • image Adam vol.56/143

Reference number

Adam vol.56/143

Purpose

Capriccio showing a broken and overgrown sarcophagus with a tripartite front panel on a console base, beside the foot of a fluted pilaster.

Aspect

Perspective

Inscribed

Inscribed in ink 107; in red ink 143.

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 91 dia., sheet size 100 x 98, 4 corners trimmed diagonally

Hand

Robert Adam

Notes

This drawing is another exercise in the series on the theme of sarcophagi; it can be compared with Adam vol.56/66, 56/68 and 56/81.

Level

Drawing

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

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