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[51] Finished drawing for a ceiling, c1765-66, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 15/68
Purpose
[51] Finished drawing for a ceiling, c1765-66, unexecuted
Aspect
(51) Lunette-shaped ceiling showing half of a circular ceiling, with rectangular figurative tablets, and vesica-shaped figurative medallions, and a ground ornamented with a patera encircled by cameos, festoons, ox skulls, a band of Vitruvian scroll, half figures supporting baskets, paired dolphins, anthemia, calyx, half winged sphinxes, arabesques, acanthus leaves, and a monochrome border of arabesques, acanthus leaves, anthemia, calyx, and rosettes
Scale
to a scale
Signed and dated
- Io Giuseppe Manocchi Romano (this has been scratched out and is very feint) and date range: 1765-66
Medium and dimensions
Pen and coloured washes including Indian red, cerulean blue and yellow ochre within a single ruled border on laid paper (564 x 333)
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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