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  • image SM Adam volume 15/57

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

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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