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  • image SM Adam volume 16/12

Reference number

SM Adam volume 16/12

Purpose

[112] Finished drawing for an ornamental grotesque panel, c1765-66, unexecuted

Aspect

(112) Elevation of a pointed-arch-shaped panel - possibly for a wall or pointed niche head - ornamented with figurative medallions, rosettes enclosed in square, and a central elliptical figurative tablet within a rectangular frame, and a ground of winged putti, winged half putti, urns, masks, winged half figures, masks, tubular flowers, arabesques, acanthus leaves, calyx and a variety of foliage

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

  • Io Giuseppe Manochi Romano and date range: 1765-66

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes including cerulean blue, yellow ochre and terre verte within a double ruled border on laid paper (577 x 376)

Hand

Giuseppe Manocchi

Notes

See scheme notes.

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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