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