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  • image SM Adam volume 16/66

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

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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