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  • image SM Adam volume 15/74

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

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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