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[33] Finished drawing for a ceiling, c1765-66, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 15/48
Purpose
[33] Finished drawing for a ceiling, c1765-66, unexecuted
Aspect
(33) Lunette-shaped plan showing half of a circular ceiling, with a patera encircled by a fan and wreath, a band of winged half putti hunting lions amid arabesques, a second band of winged half figures, swags, tubular flowers, military trophies, laurel leaves, anthemia, calyx, and rosettes, and a third, bordering band of swans, masks, swags, acanthus leaves and festoons of oak leaves
Scale
to a scale
Signed and dated
- date range: 1765-66
Medium and dimensions
Pen and coloured washes including yellow ochre, pink and cerulean blue within a single ruled border on laid paper (364 x 268)
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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