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Unfinished capriccio showing domed building in partially wooded landscape. In the foreground is a ruin constructed from fragments, with three figures on the steps and a dog.
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Reference number
Adam vol.56/158
Purpose
Unfinished capriccio showing domed building in partially wooded landscape. In the foreground is a ruin constructed from fragments, with three figures on the steps and a dog.
Aspect
Perspective
Inscribed
Inscribed in red ink in 2 places on the drawing 158.
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably c.1756.
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, chalk, watercolour; chalk framing line368 x 527
Hand
Robert Adam
Watermark
IHS
Notes
This drawing is similar to the landscape studies by Robert Adam in the sketchbook in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York (see Tait Robert Adam: drawings and imagination (Cambridge, 1993), pp.21-23). It can also be compared with drawings in Adam vol.56/49-54 that show the influence of Jean-Baptiste Lallemand (1716-1803) on Adam and reflect his interest in the landscaped park (see Fleming Robert Adam and His Circle in Edinburgh & Rome (London, 1962), p.363). Like these other drawings, this composition can probably be dated c.1756; it shows how far Adam had progressed from the landscape compositions he had made earlier in the decade (see Adam vol.56/5).
Level
Drawing
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