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  • image SM Adam volume 16/29

Reference number

SM Adam volume 16/29

Purpose

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

Aspect

(129) Elevation of a pointed-arch-shaped panel - possibly for a wall or pointed niche head - ornamented with rectangular panels containing putti, and a lunette-shaped figurative panel framed by a fan enclosing anthemia, masks and lion masks, and with a ground of swans, winged putti flanking an urn and under a canopy, festoons, arabesques, acanthus leaves, calyx, rosettes, olive leaves

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

  • Io Giuseppe Manochi Romano and date range: 1765-66

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes including Indian red, cerulean blue and yellow ochre within a double ruled border on laid paper (602 x 368)

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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