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  • image SM Adam volume 15/6

Reference number

SM Adam volume 15/6

Purpose

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

Aspect

Elevation of a rectangular compartmental design, divided into lozenges by bands of cable moulding, each lozenge containing a patera enclosed by either a fan or anthemia, Vitruvian scroll, 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 pink, verdigris and sepia within a double ruled border on laid paper (388 x 521)

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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