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Italy: Rome, the Vatican. Record drawings for two panels, the top one showing a lion, cupid, bird and female herm amongst foliage. The lower panel shows two cupids and a female herm amongst foliage
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Reference number
Adam vol.26/15
Purpose
Italy: Rome, the Vatican. Record drawings for two panels, the top one showing a lion, cupid, bird and female herm amongst foliage. The lower panel shows two cupids and a female herm amongst foliage
Aspect
Elevations
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink in a contemporary hand Dentro le Stanze al Vaticano
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1760 - 63
Medium and dimensions
Pen, brown wash; ink framing lines to each panel
558 x 203
Hand
Giuseppe Manocchi (attributed to)
Notes
This sheet is different from the stanze set, which uses watercolour, but it is similar to a pen and brown wash drawing for the grotesque decoration of a lunette, although the penwork on the figures is different (see P. Fuhring, Design into Art, Drawings for Architecture and Ornament, 2 vols., London, 1989, I, p.61). The same inscription, in the same hand, appears in Adam vol.26/22.
Level
Drawing
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