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[146] Finished drawing for an ornamental grotesque panel, c1765-66, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 16/46
Purpose
[146] Finished drawing for an ornamental grotesque panel, c1765-66, unexecuted
Aspect
(146) Elevation of a rectangular panel - possibly for a wall - ornamented with an octagonal, figurative panel in each corner, and the figure of Mercury flanked on either side by a putto riding a half centaur beneath a canopy with paired columns, and with half winged figures, terms, swans, swags, half figures, birds, military trophies, square compartments containing dragons, arabesques, tubular flowers, calyx, wheat sheaves, olive leaves, rosettes and a variety of foliage
Scale
to a scale
Signed and dated
- date range: 1765-66
Medium and dimensions
Pen and coloured washes including olive green, pink and cerulean blue within a single ruled border on laid paper (523 x 365)
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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