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  • image SM Adam volume 15/62

Reference number

SM Adam volume 15/62

Purpose

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

Aspect

(45) Rectangular plan showing half of a square ceiling with curved corners, with figurative medallions, and lunette-shaped and rectangular tablets containing figures and putti, and a ground ornamented with a patera encircled by a fan and wreathes within a square compartment, framed by terms supporting baskets, arabesques, calyx, rosettes, acanthus leaves and olive leaves, within a band of Vitruvian scroll, and with bordering compartments containing swags, sphinxes, urns, arabesques, acanthus leaves, calyx, and rosettes

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

  • date range: 1765-66

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes including Indian red, yellow ochre and cerulean blue within a double ruled border on laid paper (567 x 315)

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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