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  • image SM Adam volume 15/46

Reference number

SM Adam volume 15/46

Purpose

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

Aspect

(31) Rectangular plan showing half of a square ceiling, with elliptical figurative medallions enclosed by wreathes, and with a ground ornamented with a patera within a fan and wreath, figures supported by tubular flowers, winged fauns supporting baskets and supported by tubular flowers, urns, half figures, swags, masks, arabesques, acanthus leaves, calyx, wheat sheaves, rosettes, and a border of masks, arabesques, calyx, rosette, a variety of foliage, panels containing swans, and panels containing winged putti harvesting

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

  • date range: 1765-66

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes including violet, red, terre verte and cerulean blue within a single ruled border on laid paper (540 x 365)

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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