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Unfinished record drawing of part of a ceiling showing six parallel borders, that on the top of the sheet being the most elaborate. The bottom border has an octagonal panel of The Three Graces, geometric and fretwork forms.
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Reference number
Adam vol.26/143
Purpose
Unfinished record drawing of part of a ceiling showing six parallel borders, that on the top of the sheet being the most elaborate. The bottom border has an octagonal panel of The Three Graces, geometric and fretwork forms.
Aspect
Ceiling plan
Inscribed
Inscribed in in chalk 10.11
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1760 - 1763
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen, grey and brown wash
545 x 464, two sheets joined
Hand
Giuseppe Manocchi
Notes
The four lower borders in this drawing are those shown in Adam vol.26/133, and this sheet may be a continuation of that composition, and, like it, derived from the Giovanni Battista Piranesi illustration in Vasi, Candelabri, Cippi, Sarcofagi, etc. (Rome, 1778), as from Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli, Italy. The chalk dimensions on the top left-hand side emphasise the unfinished state of this drawing. There are similar designs among the drawings by Giuseppe Manocchi (c.1731-82) in Adam volumes 15 and 16.
Level
Drawing
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