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  • image SM Adam volume 15/68

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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