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Design after the antique for a ceiling composed as a circle within a square with rectangular and circular panels serving as the base for standing figures radiating from a central circle containing a figure.
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Reference number
Adam vol.26/180
Purpose
Design after the antique for a ceiling composed as a circle within a square with rectangular and circular panels serving as the base for standing figures radiating from a central circle containing a figure.
Aspect
Ceiling plan
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1760 - 1763
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen, watercolour, bodycolour; black border
416 x 464
Hand
Giuseppe Manocchi
Notes
This is one of a set of highly-finished, coloured drawings of a similar size (see Adam vol.26/168, 169, 179-182, 185, 187, 189 and 190) by Giuseppe Manocchi (1731-82), which parallel those found in Adam volumes 15 and 16. The antique source for this composition is similar to that shown in Robert Adam's 1750 copy of Bartoli, Picturae Antiquae Cryptarum Romanarum (p.107, pl.3).
Level
Drawing
Exhibition history
The Adam Brothers in Rome: Drawings from the Grand Tour, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 25 September 2008 - 14 February 2009
Paper Palaces: the Topham Collection as a source for British Neo-Classicism, The Verey Gallery, Eton College, 16 May - 1 November 2013
Paper Palaces: the Topham Collection as a source for British Neo-Classicism, The Verey Gallery, Eton College, 16 May - 1 November 2013
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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