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Record drawing showing three half-panels, the largest of which shows a griffin supporting an urn with winged putto, foliage and rosette. At the top of the sheet is a figure among rosettes and foliage; at the bottom is a putto beside an urn with foliage and a floral human mask to one side.
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Reference number
Adam vol.26/21
Purpose
Record drawing showing three half-panels, the largest of which shows a griffin supporting an urn with winged putto, foliage and rosette. At the top of the sheet is a figure among rosettes and foliage; at the bottom is a putto beside an urn with foliage and a floral human mask to one side.
Aspect
Elevations
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1760 - 63
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen, grey wash
347 x 226
Hand
Giuseppe Manocchi (attributed to)
Notes
The three studies here may be compared with the watercolour in Adam vol.26/1. The roughly triangular shape of the largest panel suggests that the composition may be taken from one of the vaults in the Vatican logge. The compositions from Adam vol.26/21-28 can be compared with the prints in Robert Adam's Designs for Vases and Foliage, 1821, pls.11-13, which are probably designs by Giuseppe Manocchi (c.1731-82), later engraved by Benedetto Pastorini (born c.1746). There is a version of the drawing by Manocchi dated 1769 and inscribed Sofitto de Vaticano in the Royal Collection, Windsor (BM283; RL11603).
Level
Drawing
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