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  • image SM Adam volume 15/56

Reference number

SM Adam volume 15/56

Purpose

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

Aspect

(39) Lunette-shaped plan showing half of a circular ceiling, with a patera encircled by enclosed masks, a band of fret, arabesques and ox skulls within a square band of guilloche, and with rectangular tablets containing half centaurs, and figurative medallions, winged half figures, calyx and olive leaves within hexagons of guilloche, and with a ground ornamented with fans, urns, winged putti riding half griffons, calyx, anthemia, and a border containing figurative medallions, winged sphinxes, arabesques, acanthus leaves, calyx, 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 Indian red, yellow ochre and verdigris within a double ruled border on laid paper (526 x 347)

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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