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  • image SM Adam volume 15/71

Reference number

SM Adam volume 15/71

Purpose

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

Aspect

(54) Rectangular plan showing half of a square ceiling, with vesica-shaped figurative medallions, and lunette-shaped tablets containing reclining figures, within cusped frames, and a ground ornamented with a patera enclosed within a fan, lion masks, birds, festoons, half putti playing trumpets, winged half figures supporting baskets, arabesques, acanthus leaves, tubular flowers, calyx, and a border of calyx and rosettes enclosed by figure-of-eight ribbons

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, verdigris and yellow ochre within a single ruled border on laid paper (528 x 322)

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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