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  • image SM Adam volume 15/1

Reference number

SM Adam volume 15/1

Purpose

[5] Finished drawing for a ceiling or a carpet, c1765-66, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of a square, compartmental design, divided into squares containing patera encircled by enclosed rosettes, anthemia, festoons, peltoid shields and arabesques, and with smaller squares in each corner containing enclosed rosettes, and with a border of Vitruvian scroll

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

  • 1765-66
    date range: 1765-66

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes including pink and verdigris within a single ruled border on laid paper (411 x 445)

Hand

Giuseppe Manocchi

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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