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  • image SM Adam volume 15/52

Reference number

SM Adam volume 15/52

Purpose

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

Aspect

(35) Plan showing three-quarters of a circular ceiling, with a central patera enclosed within a hexagonal compartment, and encircled by six elliptical figurative medallions enclosed within square compartments, encircled by compartments supported by fauns and containing winged half figures, arabesques, calyx, acanthus leaves, wheat sheaves, and anthemia, and with outer lunette-shaped compartments containing figurative medallions, winged half putti, arabesques, calyx, acanthus leaves, olive leaves, and with a border of ox skulls and festoons

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

  • date range: 1765-66

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes including cerulean blue and yellow ochre within a double ruled border on laid paper (608 x 427)

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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