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