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Design for a ceiling after the antique with a central circle containing a figure, around which are four irregular panels each containing an urn and bird. Various borders of stylised forms, in the outermost of which are eight small squares, some containing figures.
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Reference number
Adam vol.26/182
Purpose
Design for a ceiling after the antique with a central circle containing a figure, around which are four irregular panels each containing an urn and bird. Various borders of stylised forms, in the outermost of which are eight small squares, some containing figures.
Aspect
Ceiling plan
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1760 - 1763
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen, watercolour, bodycolour; red border
373 x 465
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 design here is close to that in Adam vol.26/168; the differences lie in some of the figure panels and the stylised details of the borders. There is a further, unfinished version 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.93).
Level
Drawing
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