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Design for a rectangular ceiling with a central circular panel containing a figure; this is surrounded by four panels with vine-leafed borders; other borders of stylised patterns.
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Reference number
Adam vol.26/168
Purpose
Design for a rectangular ceiling with a central circular panel containing a figure; this is surrounded by four panels with vine-leafed borders; other borders of stylised patterns.
Aspect
Ceiling plan
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1760 - 1763
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen, watercolour, bodycolour; black border
454 x 410
Hand
Giuseppe Manocchi
Notes
This is one of ten (Adam vol. 26/168, 169, 179-182, 185, 187, 189, 190), highly-finished, coloured drawings by Giuseppe Manocchi (1731-82), which parallel those found in Adam volumes 15 and 16. The composition here is virtually identical to the Manocchi scheme in Adam vol.26/182; the differences lie in some of the figure panels and the stylised details of the borders, however, the hand is the same in both. There is another unfinished copy of this ceiling design, partially coloured, in the Manocchi drawings amongst the Hardwick albums in the RIBA (see J. Lever, Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects, L-N, London, 1973, p.62).
Level
Drawing
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