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Design for a ceiling or antique study for a panel (?) showing a central circular panel containing a female figure carrying an urn in the centre and four other figures in semi-circular panels; beyond this are panels of various shapes containing figures, all within a stylised border.
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Reference number
Adam vol.26/187
Purpose
Design for a ceiling or antique study for a panel (?) showing a central circular panel containing a female figure carrying an urn in the centre and four other figures in semi-circular panels; beyond this are panels of various shapes containing figures, all within a stylised border.
Aspect
Ceiling plan
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1760 - 1763
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen, watercolour, bodycolour; black border
425 x 422
Hand
Giuseppe Manocchi (attributed to)
Watermark
Countermark
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. This composition is notable for the naturalism of the figures and scenes in the various panels, which may be compared with those from the Baths of Titus in Robert Adam's 1750 copy of Bartoli, Picturae Antiquae Cryptarum Romanarum (p. 107) (see also Adam vol.26/190). The central section is similar to a composition in the Catacomb of Sts. Peter and Marcellinus (see R. Ling, Roman Painting, Cambridge, 1991, pl.206).
Level
Drawing
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