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Landscape study showing an irregular line of young deciduous trees on a rise in a park-like setting.
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Reference number
Adam vol.56/156
Purpose
Landscape study showing an irregular line of young deciduous trees on a rise in a park-like setting.
Aspect
Perspective
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink 84; in red ink 156.
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably after 1755.
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen, watercolour290 x 214, 4 corners trimmed diagonally
Hand
Robert Adam
Notes
This drawing is one of a number of tree and landscape studies by Robert Adam (see also Adam vol.56/157, 163, 165 and 169) and a large collection at Blair Adam (BA 332-384). Robert Adam may have been inspired by landscape prints such as Paul Sandby's forest landscapes of c.1752 (see Herrmann Paul and Thomas Sandby (London, 1986), p.16, fig.4). However, these five drawings are more sophisticated than others found earlier in Adam volume 56 (such as 56/10, 56/11) and were probably made after 1755.
Level
Drawing
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