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[40] Finished drawing for a ceiling, c1765-66, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 15/57
Purpose
[40] Finished drawing for a ceiling, c1765-66, unexecuted
Aspect
(40) Plan showing three-quarters of a circular ceiling, with a central circular compartment containing a patera encircled by winged half griffons, arabesques and calyx, and with an outer band of winged half figures supporting urns of foliage, tubular flowers, half birds, lions, urns, arabesques, calyx, acanthus leaves, anthemia, and a border of rectangular and lunette-shaped tablets containing urns, dogs, and figures, and with winged lions, arabesques, calyx and anthemia
Scale
to a scale
Signed and dated
- date range: 1765-66
Medium and dimensions
Pen and coloured washes including violet, yellow ochre, cerulean blue within a double ruled border on laid paper (602 x 423)
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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