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[152] Finished drawing for an ornamental grotesque panel, c1765-66, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 16/52
Purpose
[152] Finished drawing for an ornamental grotesque panel, c1765-66, unexecuted
Aspect
(152) Elevation of a rectangular panel - possibly for a pilaster - ornamented with an elliptical panel containing two figures and a winged putto within a rectangular frame, and a ground with a winged putto sitting in a shell, a winged half figure under a canopy, half swans, a rosette enclosed by a lozenge, arabesques, calyx, wheat sheaves, acanthus leaves, oak leaves and laurel leaves
Scale
to a scale
Signed and dated
- Io Giuseppe Manocchi Romano and date range: 1765-66
Medium and dimensions
Pen and coloured washes including red, cerulean blue and yellow ochre within a double ruled border on laid paper (209 x 588)
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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