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[164] Finished drawing for an ornamental grotesque panel, c1765-66, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 16/64
Purpose
[164] Finished drawing for an ornamental grotesque panel, c1765-66, unexecuted
Aspect
(164) Elevation of a rectangular panel - possibly for a wall - ornamented with a swan, half putti, winged sphinxes, winged half putti, terms, urns, swags, half putti with trumpets, eagles, arabesques, rosettes, acanthus leaves, laurel leaves, calyx, tubular flowers and anthemia
Scale
to a scale
Signed and dated
- Io Giusepp (sic) Manochi Romano and date range: 1765-66
Medium and dimensions
Pen and coloured washes including cerulean blue, pink, violet and terre verte within a single ruled border on laid paper (354 x 522)
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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