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[12] Finished drawing for a ceiling or a carpet, c1765-66, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 15/8
Purpose
[12] Finished drawing for a ceiling or a carpet, c1765-66, unexecuted
Aspect
Plan of a square design, with a central rosette encircled by a fan and scrolled hearts, fans, and arabesques, within a square compartment framed by arabesques, peltoid shields, and a circular band of Vitruvian scroll, and with a compartmental border divided by bands of cable moulding, and composed of squares containing rosettes, and either fans or anthemia, and rectangles containing anthemia
Scale
to a scale
Signed and dated
- 1765-66
date range: 1765-66
Medium and dimensions
Pen and coloured washes including yellow ochre, pink and terre verte within a double ruled border on laid paper (364 x 488)
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
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