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  • image SM Adam volume 15/12

Reference number

SM Adam volume 15/12

Purpose

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

Aspect

(16) Plan of a rectangular, compartmental design, with a central rectangular compartment containing intersecting lozenges and circles, the circles containing patera enclosed by anthemia and fans, and the lozenges containing patera enclosed by anthemia and arabesques, and with a border of enclosed patera within a repeating x-shaped arrangement

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

  • date range: 1765-66

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes including pink, yellow ochre and cerulean blue within a single ruled border on laid paper (405 x 579)

Hand

Giuseppe Manocchi

Notes

See scheme notes.

Literature

Spiers, 1979, p. 28 For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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