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Possibly unfinished record drawing of a half-circle ceiling design showing three radiating bands. The outer band has panels with deer either side of an anthemion; the second band has panels with griffins on either side of a figure; the third band has rosettes and arabesques.
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Reference number
Adam vol.26/94
Purpose
Possibly unfinished record drawing of a half-circle ceiling design showing three radiating bands. The outer band has panels with deer either side of an anthemion; the second band has panels with griffins on either side of a figure; the third band has rosettes and arabesques.
Aspect
Ceiling plan
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1760 - 63
Medium and dimensions
Pen, watercolour
400 x 634, foldline
Hand
Giuseppe Manocchi
Notes
This is a companion to Adam vol.26/93 and is in Giuseppe Manocchi (c.1731-82)'s hand. Both are watercolours that are more typical of those found in the Manocchi drawings in Adam volumes 15 and 16. This drawing may also be compared with a watercolour amongst the drawings by Charles-Louis Clérisseau (1721-1820) in Box E in the Hermitage, St Petersburg, Russia (1861) with a source in Empress Livia's apartments on the Palatine, Rome (see 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, p.100).
It is possible that this is one of the three ceilings from 'Livia's Baths' that James Adam referred to in 1762 as '... painted and so pretty and so rare that I thought I could not have them done with too much care' (J. Fleming, Robert Adam and His Circle in Edinburgh and Rome, London, 1962, p.371). There is another drawing of one of the ceilings in Adam vol.26/169.
It is possible that this is one of the three ceilings from 'Livia's Baths' that James Adam referred to in 1762 as '... painted and so pretty and so rare that I thought I could not have them done with too much care' (J. Fleming, Robert Adam and His Circle in Edinburgh and Rome, London, 1962, p.371). There is another drawing of one of the ceilings in Adam vol.26/169.
Level
Drawing
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