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Reference number

Adam vol.26/28

Purpose

Record drawing showing half of a ceiling with grotesque work around a central octagon with scallop-edged panels radiating from a central rose. Above on the sheet is part of a wall panel with grotesque decoration.

Aspect

Ceiling plan, elevation

Signed and dated

  • Undated, probably 1765 - 67

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil 446 x 296

Hand

Giuseppe Manocchi (attributed to)

Notes

This drawing is similar to those by Giuseppe Manocchi (c.1731-82) in the RIBA Drawings Collection (see J. Lever, ed., Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects, L-N, London, 1973, p.63). The RIBA drawings belong mostly to the period 1765-67 when Manocchi was in London. This drawing and those in Adam vol.26/29 and 32, may belong to this period, and as such are the counterparts of the Manocchi drawings in Adam volumes 15 and 16 of c.1766. According to McCormick, 'the original Clérisseaus from which they were copied are in the Hermitage'; he gives the source as a study of decorative details (see T. McCormick, Charles-Louis Clérisseau and the Genesis of Neo-Classicism, Cambridge Massachusetts and London, 1990, p.148, fig.128). McCormick also notes that this composition and Adam vol.26/95 are by an unknown draughtsman and are given no particular date. There are other copies in the same style in Adam vol.19/101-106. A note in Manocchi's hand in the fourth album, folio 15 of the Hardwick drawings in the RIBA lists at least some of Manocchi's assistants: 'Renatte pittore / Zanfano pittore / Gemi pittore / Veste pittore'.

Literature

Repr. T. McCormick, Charles-Louis Clérisseau and the Genesis of Neo-Classicism, Cambridge Massachusetts and London, 1990, p.150, fig.127.

Level

Drawing

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