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  • image SM Adam volume 15/17

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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