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[127] Finished drawing for an ornamental grotesque panel, c1765-66, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 16/27
Purpose
[127] Finished drawing for an ornamental grotesque panel, c1765-66, unexecuted
Aspect
(127) Elevation of a rectangular panel - possibly for a wall - ornamented with a rectangular figurative tablet, square and elliptical figurative medallions, and a circular, colonnaded, domed temple containing a female figure, and a ground of birds, masks, winged half figures, tubular flowers, wheat sheaves, urns, arabesques, acanthus leaves, calyx, anthemia, olive leaves and rosettes
Scale
to a scale
Signed and dated
- Io Giuseppe Manocchi Romano and date range: 1765-66
Medium and dimensions
Pen and coloured washes including Indian red, yellow ochre and cerulean blue within a single ruled border on laid paper (362 x 577)
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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