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