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  • image SM Adam volume 16/65

Reference number

SM Adam volume 16/65

Purpose

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

Aspect

(165) Elevation of a rectangular panel - possibly for a wall - with a rectangular tablet containing fauns and seahorse centaurs, and the ground ornamented with winged half putti, winged putti, eagles, half figures, a winged faun, enclosed ox skulls, masks, a figure with a robe of swags, winged putti, winged sphinxes, swags, baskets, ribbons, wheat sheaves, tubular flowers, anthemia, arabesques, ivy, calyx, and acanthus leaves

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, sepia and terre verte within a single ruled border on laid paper (334 x 523)

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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