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Reference number

SM Adam volume 16/28

Purpose

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

Aspect

(128) Elevation of a rectangular panel with curved top corners - possibly for a wall - ornamented with a central octagonal panel containing a figure sitting on a bull, and a ground of winged half putti, figures standing on tubular flowers, birds, masks, an urn, canopies made from wreaths, festoons, arabesques, acanthus leaves, calyx, laurel leaves, anthemia, olive leaves, rosettes and oak leaves
  • image SM Adam volume 16/28

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, terre verte, red and yellow ochre, within a single ruled border on laid paper (564 x 377)

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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