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[18] Finished drawing for a ceiling, c1765-66, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 15/14
Purpose
[18] Finished drawing for a ceiling, c1765-66, unexecuted
Aspect
(18) Lunette-shaped plan showing half of a circular ceiling, with a central patera encircled by calyx, arabesques, anthemia, fret enclosing lion masks, festoons, urns, drops of calyx, fanning out compartments containing oval figurative medallions enclosed by wreaths, and with a mask, terms, calyx, rosettes, arabesques, and acanthus leaves, and with bordering compartments containing masks, calyx, arabesques, rosettes and acanthus leaves
Scale
to a scale
Signed and dated
- date range: 1765-66
Medium and dimensions
Pen and coloured washes including sepia within a single ruled border on laid paper (333 x 597)
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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