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[57] Finished drawing for a ceiling, c1765-66, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 15/74
Purpose
[57] Finished drawing for a ceiling, c1765-66, unexecuted
Aspect
(57) Lunette-shaped plan showing half of a circular ceiling, with octagonal figurative medallions, and a ground ornamented with a central patera encircled by enclosed calyx, an octagonal band of Vitruvian scroll, baskets, wreaths, winged fauns supported by tubular flowers, anthemia, arabesques, acanthus leaves, calyx, rosettes, winged half putti, and a border of rosettes enclosed by lozenges, and panels containing wading birds
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 (565 x 334)
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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