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[38] Finished drawing for a ceiling, c1765-66, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 15/55
Purpose
[38] Finished drawing for a ceiling, c1765-66, unexecuted
Aspect
(38) Rectangular plan showing half of a square ceiling, with a central medallion containing four putti and a chariot, enclosed by an octagonal band of Vitruvian scroll, lozenge-shaped figurative medallions, circular medallions in the corners containing centaurs, and a circular band containing cameos, and rectangular tablets containing figures and putti, and a ground ornamented with swags, urns, anthemia, masks, figures, putti, arabesques, acanthus leaves, olive leaves, calyx, winged sphinxes, and rosettes
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 black, cerulean blue and yellow ochre within a double ruled border on laid paper (582 x 358)
Hand
Giuseppe Manocchi
Notes
See scheme notes.
Literature
Spiers, 1979, p. 28
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
Exhibition history
Robert Adam, The Creative Mind: from the Sketch to the Finished Drawing, Sir John Soane's Museum, 4 October 1996 - 1 March 1997; The Frick Collection, New York, December 1997 - April 1998; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, May - June 1998; The Octagon Museum, Washington, July 1998 - January 1999; Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, February - March 1999
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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