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  • image SM Adam volume 15/45

Reference number

SM Adam volume 15/45

Purpose

[30] Finished drawing for a ceiling, c1765-66, unexecuted

Aspect

(30) Lunette-shaped plan showing half of a circular ceiling, with a central patera encircled by fluting, calyx, cable moulding, a fan, anthemia, paired dolphins, arches of Vitruvian scroll with an apron of swags, and enclosing winged putti riding half unicorns and half lions, and a border of winged half figures, festoons, calyx, arabesques, acanthus leaves, rosettes and olive leaves

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

  • Io Giuseppe Manocchi Romano (this has been scratched out and is very feint) and date range: 1765-66

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes including lemon yellow, pink, terre verte and cerulean blue within a single ruled border on laid paper (565 x 364)

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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