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  • image SM Adam volume 15/58

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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