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[27] Finished drawing for a ceiling, c1765-66, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 15/32
Purpose
[27] Finished drawing for a ceiling, c1765-66, unexecuted
Aspect
(27) Hexagonal plan showing half of an octagonal ceiling, with lunette-shaped figurative tablets, and figurative medallions, and a ground ornamented with a patera encircled by a fan, arabesques, wreaths, lion masks, all set within a square compartment, which in turn is within an x-shaped arrangement, with laurel leaves, calyx, half putti blowing trumpets, tubular flowers, festoons, masks, swags, anthemia, and a border of calyx, and lozenges enclosing rosettes, with central panels containing wading birds, and corner panels containing masks supporting baskets, and arabesques
Scale
to a scale
Signed and dated
- Io Giuseppe Manocchi Romano and date range: 1765-66
Medium and dimensions
Pen and coloured washes including Indian red, yellow ochre, and cerulean blue within a single ruled border on laid paper (588 x 310)
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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