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[14] Finished drawing for a ceiling or a carpet, c1765-66, unexecuted
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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.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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