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