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[166] Finished drawing for an ornamental grotesque panel, c1765-66, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 16/66
Purpose
[166] Finished drawing for an ornamental grotesque panel, c1765-66, unexecuted
Aspect
(166) Elevation of a pointed-arch-shaped panel - possibly for a wall or pointed niche head - with two oval figurative medallions, and two rectangular tablets containing seahorse centaurs and putti, and a ground ornamented with half birds, winged half figures, winged half putti, urns, masks, swags, tubular flowers, rosettes, calyx, arabesques, acanthus leaves, olive leaves 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 yellow ochre, red and cerulean blue within a single ruled border on laid paper (524 x 365)
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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