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  • image SM Adam volume 15/8

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.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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