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Italy: Rome, Castle St Angelo. Record drawing of an arabesque panel of two central figures reclining on a scalloped vase surrounded by looping floral rosettes.
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Reference number
Adam vol.26/1
Purpose
Italy: Rome, Castle St Angelo. Record drawing of an arabesque panel of two central figures reclining on a scalloped vase surrounded by looping floral rosettes.
Aspect
Elevation
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink in a contemporary hand Castle St. Angelo. Rome
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1760 - 63
Medium and dimensions
Pen, watercolour, ink framing line
274 x 421
Hand
Giuseppe Manocchi (attributed to)
Notes
This drawing is a copy of one among the collection of drawings by Charles-Louis Clérisseau in the Hermitage, St Petersburg (2257); it is illustrated in Charles-Louis Clérisseau (1721-1820) Dessins du musée de l'Ermitage Saint-Petersbourg, catalogue of an exhibition held at the Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1995, pl.17, although this only shows the right-hand part of the sheet. Apart from working on the logge, Giuseppe Manocchi (c.1731-82) probably made other drawings, such as those in the RIBA noted as 'volta del Vaticano & di Michelangelo' (J. Lever, ed. Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institite of British Architects, L-N, London, 1973). The decoration is probably taken from the papal apartments in the castello.
Level
Drawing
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