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  • image SM Adam volume 15/29

Reference number

SM Adam volume 15/29

Purpose

[25] Finished drawing for a ceiling, 1765, unexecuted

Aspect

(25) Rectangular plan showing half of a square ceiling, with a central figurative medallion encircled by a fan and enclosed within an octagon, and medallions containing centaurs, and figurative rectangular tablets, and a ground ornamented with masks, festoons, half putti, cloaked figures supported by tubular flowers, half figures with arabesque arms, swans, half dragons, swags, fauns, urns, arabesques, acanthus leaves, rosettes, and calyx

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

  • Io Giuseppe Manocchi Romano 1765

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes including sepia, yellow ochre and cerulean blue within a single ruled border on laid paper (576 x 330)

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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