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Capriccio showing two columned courts composed of banded columns with a storey of caryatid figures above, supporting a shallow dome.
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Reference number
Adam vol.56/172
Purpose
Capriccio showing two columned courts composed of banded columns with a storey of caryatid figures above, supporting a shallow dome.
Aspect
Perspective
Inscribed
Inscribed in red ink 172.verso in ink in a contemporary hand: To finde ye content of ye convex superficies of a Cylinder/ Multiply ye Circumference of ye Base of ye Cylinder by (a b) ye height of ye/ Cylider and ye product will be ye content of ye convex superficies of ye/ Cylinder
Signed and dated
- Undated, eighteenth century.
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen, brown wash; double red ink framing lines on backing sheet284 x 243, silhouetted and laid/mounted onto backing sheet
Hand
Unidentified eighteenth-century artist
Verso
The inscription appears to have little to do with the drawing on the recto.
Notes
This composition is probably derived from a late sixteenth-century print, possibly northern European. It can be compared with the style of the capricci in Adam vol.56/29 and 30. The printed source of the drawing probably came from the library at Blair Adam; the hand is mature and sophisticated.
Level
Drawing
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