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  • image SM Adam volume 15/69

Reference number

SM Adam volume 15/69

Purpose

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

Aspect

(52) Rectangular ceiling showing half of a square ceiling, with square and rectangular figurative tablets, and a central blank square compartment, encircled by fans, and a band of winged half figures, arabesques, acanthus leaves, calyx and rosettes, and a ground ornamented with winged griffons, festoons, urns, arabesques, rosettes, acanthus leaves, calyx, swags, cameos, winged terms supporting baskets, winged half figures, and olive leaves

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, yellow ochre and verdigris within a single ruled border on laid paper (539 x 323)

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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