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  • image SM Adam volume 16/46

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

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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