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[58] Finished drawing for a ceiling, c1765-66, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 15/75
Purpose
[58] Finished drawing for a ceiling, c1765-66, unexecuted
Aspect
(58) Lunette-shaped plan showing half of a circular ceiling, with figurative medallions, and rectangular figurative tablets, and a ground ornamented with a patera encircled by masks, swags, fluting, a band of rosettes enclosed by figure-of-eight ribbons, and with arabesques, acanthus leaves, calyx, swans supported by tubular flowers and holding ribbons, winged half figures, winged half lions, cornucopia, rosettes, and with a border of ox skulls, arabesques, acanthus leaves, calyx, and 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, yellow ochre and cerulean blue within a single ruled border on laid paper (543 x 299)
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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