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  • image SM Adam volume 16/47

Reference number

SM Adam volume 16/47

Purpose

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

Aspect

(147) Elevation of a rectangular panel - possibly for a wall - ornamented with an urn containing foliage flanked by goats, winged half putti, winged half griffons, a mask, a faun, winged griffons, arabesques, acanthus leaves, tubular flowers, and a variety of foliage

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

  • date range: 1765-66

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes including pink and terre verte within a double ruled border on laid paper (348 x 524)

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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