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