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[21] Finished drawing for a ceiling, c1765-66, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 15/17
Purpose
[21] Finished drawing for a ceiling, c1765-66, unexecuted
Aspect
(21) Plan of a square ceiling, with a central square compartment containing a central patera enclosed by a fan, a band of cable moulding, festoons, arabesques, urns, anthemia, and a band of fluting, and with a smaller square compartment on each side containing an enclosed patera, anthemia and urns, and with each compartment divided by bands of guilloche, and with a ground of intersecting lozenges and circles containing patera and calyx
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 double ruled border on laid paper (362 x 408)
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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