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[153] Finished drawing for an ornamental grotesque panel, 1765, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 16/53
Purpose
[153] Finished drawing for an ornamental grotesque panel, 1765, unexecuted
Aspect
(153) Elevation of a rectangular panel - possibly for a pilaster - ornamented with a rectangular, figurative panel, and a ground with birds, winged putti, swans, a medallion enclosed by a lozenge, festoons, an urn, tubular flowers, a half figure, a mask, winged half figures, a figure with a spear, arabesques, calyx, rosettes, acanthus leaves, wheat sheaves and anthemia
Scale
to a scale
Signed and dated
- Io Giuseppe Manocchi Romano 1765
Medium and dimensions
Pen and coloured washes including yellow ochre, terre verte and red within a single ruled border on laid paper (207 x 589)
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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