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  • image SM Adam volume 15/24

Reference number

SM Adam volume 15/24

Purpose

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

Aspect

(24) Plan of a rectangular design, with a central circular compartment containing a patera and enclosed acanthus leaves, an x-shaped arrangement of drops of calyx, with hexagonal compartments containing half figures and arabesques, and with a fan in each corner, and vesica-shaped compartments containing enclosed rosettes, calyx, arabesques, and anthemia, and with bordering rectangular compartments of half figures, urns, rosettes and arabesque

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

  • date range: 1765-66

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes including sepia and cerulean blue on laid paper (338 x 428)

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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