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[118] Finished drawing for an ornamental grotesque panel, c1765-66, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 16/18
Purpose
[118] Finished drawing for an ornamental grotesque panel, c1765-66, unexecuted
Aspect
(118) Elevation of a rectangular panel - possibly for a wall or pilaster - ornamented with a peltoid shield containing a mask, a medallion containing a faun, a rectangular tablet containing seahorse centaurs, a figurative vesica-shaped medallion, a lunette-shaped landscape scene within a border of Vitruvian scroll, and a ground ornamented with winged half horses, winged half figures, winged putti, masks, swags, urns, baskets, fauns, a swan beneath a canopy, festoons, olive leaves, arabesques, and calyx, and a border of a figure of eight enclosing a mask and rosettes, urns, a winged half figure, a winged putto, a swan, arabesques and a variety of foliage
Scale
to a scale
Signed and dated
- date range: 1765-66
Medium and dimensions
Pen and coloured washes including yellow ochre, pink and red within a double ruled border on laid paper (216 x 659)
Hand
Giuseppe Manocchi
Notes
See scheme notes.
Literature
Spiers, 1979, p. 28
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
Exhibition history
Soane: Connoisseur & Collector, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 6 April - 2 September 1995; The Frick Collection, New York, 30 April - 7 July 1996
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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