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  • image SM Adam volume 16/38

Reference number

SM Adam volume 16/38

Purpose

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

Aspect

(138) Elevation of a pointed-arch shaped panel - possibly for a wall or pointed niche head - ornamented with two rectangular panels containing seahorse centaurs, and an elliptical panel containing a figure sitting in a shell, a dolphin and two half putti, and with a ground of winged putti, putti fauns, half griffons, arabesques and olive leaves, and with a border of ribbon would around leaves

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

  • Io Giuseppe Manocchi Romano and range: 1765-66

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes including Indian red and red within a single ruled border on laid paper (572 x 363)

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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