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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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