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  • image SM Adam volume 16/1

Reference number

SM Adam volume 16/1

Purpose

[79] Finished drawing for a ceiling, c1765-66, unexecuted

Aspect

(79) Rectangular plan showing half of a square ceiling, with a rectangular compartment containing a charioteer, and lunettes containing figurative scenes, and a ground ornamented with putti, sphinxes, griffons, cameos, masks, festoons, and arabesques, and there is a border of medallions, masks, swans and arabesques

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

  • date range: 1765-66

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes including pink and cerulean blue within a single ruled border on laid paper (367 x 645)

Hand

Giuseppe Manocchi

Notes

See scheme notes.

Literature

Spiers, 1979, p. 28 For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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