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[41] Finished drawing for a ceiling, c1765-66, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 15/58
Purpose
[41] Finished drawing for a ceiling, c1765-66, unexecuted
Aspect
(41) Plan showing three-quarters of a hexagonal ceiling, with circular and lozenge-shaped figurative medallions, and a rectangular figurative tablet, and a ground ornamented with masks, swags, ribbons, anthemia, arabesques of acanthus leaves and olive leaves, rosettes, winged half putti, winged sphinxes, and a border of calyx enclosed by dentil-shaped bands
Scale
to a scale
Signed and dated
- Io Giuseppe Manocchi Romano (this has been scratched out and is very feint) date range: 1765-66
Medium and dimensions
Pen and coloured washes including Indian red, yellow ochre and cerulean blue within a single ruled border on laid paper (606 x 352)
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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