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  • image SM Adam volume 16/50

Reference number

SM Adam volume 16/50

Purpose

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

Aspect

(150) Elevation of a rectangular panel - possibly for a wall - with a rectangular panel containing half centaurs, a female figure, putti and a half putto, within a frame of rosettes enclosed by a figure-of-eight ribbon, and drops including masks, and a ground ornamented with a putto, winged putti, figures supporting baskets, half figures, winged half figures, masks, birds, swags, tubular flowers, wheat sheaves, arabesques, laurel leaves, acanthus leaves, calyx and rosettes

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

  • date range: 1765-66

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes including lemon yellow, black and violet within a double ruled border on laid paper (524 x 360)

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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