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