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[56] Finished drawing for a ceiling, c1765-66, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 15/73
Purpose
[56] Finished drawing for a ceiling, c1765-66, unexecuted
Aspect
(56) Rectangular plan showing half of a square ceiling, with medallions containing centaurs, and rectangular figurative tablets, and a ground ornamented with a patera enclosed by fluting, a band of Vitruvian scroll, and with lion masks, arabesques, acanthus leaves, calyx, olive leaves, oak leaves, wreaths, masks, swags, urns, tubular flowers, rosettes, figures, putti fauns, statuary figures within canopies, swans, and a border of rosettes enclosed by figure-of-eight ribbons, and enclosed 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, pink, yellow ochre and cerulean blue within a single ruled border on laid paper (593 x 351)
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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