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  • image SM Adam volume 16/23

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

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

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