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  • image SM Adam volume 15/66

Reference number

SM Adam volume 15/66

Purpose

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

Aspect

(49) Lunette-shaped plan showing half of a circular ceiling, with rectangular and lunette-shaped figurative tablets, and a ground ornamented with a patera encircled by calyx, a circular band of coin moulding, and a square band of fret, dolphins, arabesques, a circular wreath, figures supported by tubular flowers, anthemia, calyx, rosettes, and a border of winged sphinxes, arabesques, calyx, acanthus leaves, and olive leaves

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

  • date range: 1765-66

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes including Indian red, yellow ochre, verdigris and cerulean blue within a single ruled border on laid paper (583 x 341)

Hand

Giuseppe Manocchi

Notes

See scheme notes.

Literature

Spiers, 1979, p. 28 For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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