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  • image SM Adam volume 15/42

Reference number

SM Adam volume 15/42

Purpose

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

Aspect

(29) Plan of a square ceiling, with a central figurative medallion enclosed within an octagonal compartment, and a figurative medallion in each corner, and with a ground ornamented with winged half figures, cameos, winged putti, urns, winged griffons, swags, baskets, wreaths, arabesques, acanthus leaves, rosettes, calyx

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

  • Io Giuseppe Manocchi Romano 1765

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes including yellow ochre, Indian red and terre verte within a single ruled border on laid paper (294 x 339)

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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