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  • image SM Adam volume 16/57

Reference number

SM Adam volume 16/57

Purpose

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

Aspect

(157) Elevation of a rectangular panel - possibly for a wall or pilaster - with a vesica-shaped, figurative medallion and a rectangular panel containing a figure sitting in a shell and winged half putti and a winged putto, and a ground ornamented with half figures, baskets, birds, an enclosed lion mask, enclosed masks, swags, winged half putti, a winged putto, winged half unicorns, a figure supported by a pedestal, arabesques, calyx, acanthus leaves, tubular flowers, rosettes, anthemia, and a variety of foliage

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

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

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes including Indian red, violet and pink within a double ruled border in laid paper (332 x 746)

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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