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  • image Adam vol.56/165

Reference number

Adam vol.56/165

Purpose

Landscape study showing a group of trees of various ages in full leaf.

Aspect

Perspective

Inscribed

Inscribed in ink 73; in red ink on album leaf at top and bottom 165.

Signed and dated

  • Undated, eighteenth century

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, pen, brown washes301 x 231; all 4 corners torn off

Hand

Robert Adam

Notes

This drawing is one of a number of tree and landscape studies by Robert Adam (see also Adam vol.56/156, 157, 163, 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.This study of a group of trees can be compared with a similar group depicted in Adam vol.56/156.

Level

Drawing

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