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[28] Finished drawing for a ceiling, c1765-66, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 15/39
Purpose
[28] Finished drawing for a ceiling, c1765-66, unexecuted
Aspect
(28) Rectangular plan showing half of a square ceiling, with elliptical tablets containing winged putti, one riding a goat, and a ground ornamented with a central blank square compartment framed by birds, festoons, cameos, and a band of figure-of-eight ribbons enclosing olive leaves and rosettes, winged half figures, lions, masks supporting baskets, figures and winged putti within fans, urns, anthemia, arabesques, acanthus leaves, rosettes, calyx, wheat sheaves, and a border of masks, winged putti, arabesques of oak leaves and acanthus leaves, rosettes, and enclosed patera
Scale
to a scale
Signed and dated
- Io Giuseppe Manocchi Romano and range: 1765-66
Medium and dimensions
Pen and coloured washes including olive green, pink and cerulean blue within a single ruled border on laid paper (559 x 314)
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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