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  • image SM Adam volume 15/10

Reference number

SM Adam volume 15/10

Purpose

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

Aspect

Plan of a square design, with a central patera enclosed by anthemia, wreaths, arabesques, a band of Vitruvian scroll, a lozenge-shaped band of fluting, and bordering compartments divided by bands of cable moulding composed of a four rectangles containing scrolled hearts, calyx and wreaths, and four squares containing patera enclosed by anthemia and scrolled hearts

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

  • 1765-66
    date range: 1765-66

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes including pink within a double ruled border on laid paper (373 x 443)

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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