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  • image SM Adam volume 15/63

Reference number

SM Adam volume 15/63

Purpose

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

Aspect

(46) Rectangular plan showing half of a rectangular ceiling, with rectangular and octagonal tablets containing figures and putti, and a ground ornamented with a patera enclosed within fans, winged half figures, arabesques, acanthus leaves, calyx, a wreath, swags, figures supported by tubular flowers and supporting baskets, seated winged figures supporting baskets, putti, urns, masks, half dragons, fauns, ribbons, winged half putti, rosettes and anthemia

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

  • date range: 1765-66

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes including yellow ochre, pink and black within a single ruled border on laid paper (531 x 360)

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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