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  • image SM Adam volume 15/3

Reference number

SM Adam volume 15/3

Purpose

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

Aspect

Plan of a square design, with a central patera encircled by anthemia, rosettes and fans, within a lozenge ornamented with guilloche and framed by four fans and arabesques, and with a border of lozenges enclosing rosettes

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

  • 1765-66
    date range: 1765-66

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes including Indian red, cerulean blue, yellow ochre and red within a double ruled border on laid paper (373 x 457)

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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