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