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[115] Finished drawing for an ornamental grotesque panel, c1765-66, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 16/15
Purpose
[115] Finished drawing for an ornamental grotesque panel, c1765-66, unexecuted
Aspect
(115) Elevation of a rectangular panel - possibly for a pilaster - ornamented with a peltoid shield containing a winged half griffon, a figurative medallion, a rectangular tablet containing a winged goat, a half unicorn ridden by a winged putto, and half putti, a vesica-shaped medallion containing a putto, and two small temples: one round, colonnaded and domed, and one in a C-shape, and with a ground of winged half putti, birds, half horses, fauns, figures, military trophies, arabesques, calyx and a variety of foliage, and with a border of arabesque oak leaves
Scale
to a scale
Signed and dated
- date range: 1765-66
Medium and dimensions
Pen and coloured washes including yellow ochre and terre verte within a double ruled border on laid paper (202 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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