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  • image SM Adam volume 15/14

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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