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  • image SM Adam volume 15/15

Reference number

SM Adam volume 15/15

Purpose

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

Aspect

(19) Plan of a square design containing a large guilloche, the central circle containing a patera encircled by rosettes, Vitruvian scroll, arabesques and anthemia, and the four outer circles containing patera encircled by enclosed anthemia, and with a border of Vitruvian scroll composed of acanthus leaves, between bands of cable moulding

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

  • date range: 1765-66

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes including pink, terre verte, yellow ochre and cerulean blue within a double ruled border on laid paper (410 x 440)

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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