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[80] Finished drawing for a ceiling, c1765-66, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 16/67
Purpose
[80] Finished drawing for a ceiling, c1765-66, unexecuted
Aspect
(80) Lunette-shaped plan showing half of a circular ceiling, with a patera encircled by a band of half putti and putti riding half griffons, and three figurative medallions, and a ground ornamented with winged half figures, swags, winged griffons, swans, urns, wheat sheaves, acanthus leaves, rosettes, anthemia, calyx and olive 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 yellow ochre, Indian red and cerulean blue within a single ruled border on laid paper (562 x 310)
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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