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  • image SM Adam volume 15/5

Reference number

SM Adam volume 15/5

Purpose

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

Aspect

Plan of a square design, with borders of scrolled hearts, and a central circular compartment containing a patera enclosed by a fan, arabesques and anthemia, and corner compartments containing enclosed patera encircled by anthemia within lunettes, and a ground of arabesques, urns, rosettes and anthemia

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

  • 1765-66
    date range: 1765-66

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes including pink and terre verte within a double ruled border on laid paper (365 x 488)

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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