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  • image SM Adam volume 16/19

Reference number

SM Adam volume 16/19

Purpose

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

Aspect

(119) Elevation of a quadrilateral, curved, tapering, panel - possibly for a cove - ornamented with a medallion containing a putto, winged half figures, masks - one horned - swags, a basket, arabesques, acanthus leaves, calyx and olive leaves, and a border of medallions, a faun, lions, a mask, half griffons, urns, winged figures, arabesques, calyx, swags, and olive leaves

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

  • date range: 1765-66

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes including yellow ochre, pink and cerulean blue within a double ruled border on laid paper (472 x 289)

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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