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  • image SM Adam volume 16/54

Reference number

SM Adam volume 16/54

Purpose

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

Aspect

(154) Elevation for a rectangular panel - possibly for a pilaster - ornamented with winged half putti and a bird, within a large scale arabesque of acanthus leaves, and with a variety of other foliage including calyx, rosettes, and vines

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

  • Io Giuseppe Manocchi Romano and date range: 1765-66

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes including violet, red, terre verte, yellow ochre and cerulean blue within a double ruled border on laid paper (238 x 693)

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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