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[123] Finished drawing for an ornamental grotesque panel, c1765-66, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 16/23
Purpose
[123] Finished drawing for an ornamental grotesque panel, c1765-66, unexecuted
Aspect
(123) Elevation of a rectangular panel - possibly for a wall - ornamented with a recurring pattern with a central tripartite frame in the shape of a venetian window, the head of the central arch containing a fan enclosing figures and supported by lions, with a ground of square, figurative medallions, birds, half figures, urns, arabesques, acanthus leaves, tubular flowers and calyx, and with a lower compartmental border of winged half figures, a mask, and an urn, arabesques and calyx
Scale
to a scale
Signed and dated
- Io Giuseppe Manocchi Romano and date range: 1765-66
Medium and dimensions
Pen and coloured washes including cerulean blue, yellow ochre and red, within a single ruled border on laid paper (631 x 398)
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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