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Design for a ceiling after the antique with a central circular panel showing a female figure; around this are alternating oval and rectangular panels linked by arabesques. A grotesque border of griffins and putti.
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Reference number
Adam vol.26/190
Purpose
Design for a ceiling after the antique with a central circular panel showing a female figure; around this are alternating oval and rectangular panels linked by arabesques. A grotesque border of griffins and putti.
Aspect
Ceiling plan
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1760 - 1763
Medium and dimensions
Pen, watercolour, bodycolour; black border
411 x 407
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 central figure in this drawing is that found in Adam vol.26/180 and the general composition is similar to the other Manocchi ceiling designs or panels. There is a version of one quarter of this ceiling by Manocchi in 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), which is inscribed 'Palazzo di Tito Franco Bartoli. 1721'. Bartoli's Le Pitture Antiche shows several ceiling designs from the Domus and Baths of Titus, Rome.
Level
Drawing
Exhibition history
Paper Palaces: the Topham Collection as a source for British Neo-Classicism, The Verey Gallery, Eton College, 16 May - 1 November 2013
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