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