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  • image SM Adam volume 15/4

Reference number

SM Adam volume 15/4

Purpose

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

Aspect

Plan of a square design, with a central square compartment containing arabesques, and a star-fish motif containing a central patera encircled by a fan, arabesques, anthemia and wreathes, and with a compartmental border of squares containing enclosed patera and enclosed anthemia, and with a lozenge compartment in each corner containing a patera enclosed by a fan

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

  • 1765-66
    date range: 1765-66

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes including Indian red, red, cerulean blue and yellow ochre within a double ruled border on laid paper (369 x 458)

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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