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  • image SM Adam volume 16/67

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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