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Italy: Rome, the Vatican. Record drawing for the decoration of a rectangular panel showing six naturalistic rosettes in scrolling foliage with animals and birds on the branches.
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Reference number
Adam vol.26/197
Purpose
Italy: Rome, the Vatican. Record drawing for the decoration of a rectangular panel showing six naturalistic rosettes in scrolling foliage with animals and birds on the branches.
Aspect
Elevation
Inscribed
Inscribed in pencil in nineteenth-century hand 3 Arabesque
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1760 - 1763
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, watercolour
1235 x 266, three joined sheets
Hand
Giuseppe Manocchi (attributed to)
Notes
This drawing, together with those in Adam vol.26/186, 191-201 is part of a group attributed to Giuseppe Manocchi (c.1731-82), showing decoration of the Vatican logge. This drawing, which lacks its top is probably a version of the side panel from pilaster 6, although the base of the scrolling foliage does not match Ottaviani's engraving (see below). The decoration of the pilaster itself is shown accurately in Adam vol.26/199 but without the side border.
The decoration of the Vatican logge appeared as engravings between 1772 - 1777 in three parts: Logge di Rafaele nel Vaticano (1772), Seconda Parte delle Logge di Rafaele nel Vaticano (1776) and Terza ed Ultima Parte delle Logge di Rafaele nel Vaticano (1777). Work on the project of recording was begun in 1760 and was more or less completed by 1768. The principal artists involved were the painter Gaetano Savorelli (d.1791) and the architect Pietro Camporesi (1726-81), and the engraver was Giovanni Ottaviani (1735-1808). The third volume was engraved by Giovanni Volpato (1733-1803), after drawings by Ludovico Tesio (1731-82).
The decoration of the Vatican logge appeared as engravings between 1772 - 1777 in three parts: Logge di Rafaele nel Vaticano (1772), Seconda Parte delle Logge di Rafaele nel Vaticano (1776) and Terza ed Ultima Parte delle Logge di Rafaele nel Vaticano (1777). Work on the project of recording was begun in 1760 and was more or less completed by 1768. The principal artists involved were the painter Gaetano Savorelli (d.1791) and the architect Pietro Camporesi (1726-81), and the engraver was Giovanni Ottaviani (1735-1808). The third volume was engraved by Giovanni Volpato (1733-1803), after drawings by Ludovico Tesio (1731-82).
Level
Drawing
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