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  • image SM Adam volume 16/49

Reference number

SM Adam volume 16/49

Purpose

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

Aspect

(149) Elevation of a pointed arch-shaped panel - possibly for a wall or a pointed niche head - with a figurative medallion, and a ground ornamented with eagles, winged half putti, urns, winged sphinxes, swans, masks, goats, a basket, tubular flowers, arabesques, olive leaves, laurel leaves, rosettes, acanthus leaves and a variety of foliage

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

  • date range: 1765-66

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes including sepia, pink and terre verte within a single ruled border on laid paper (282 x 459)

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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