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[61] Finished drawing for a ceiling or a carpet, c1765-66, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 15/79
Purpose
[61] Finished drawing for a ceiling or a carpet, c1765-66, unexecuted
Aspect
(61) Plan of a rectangular tripartite design, divided by bands of lozenges enclosing rosettes, with a central square compartment containing a patera encircled by cable mouldnig, a wreath, drops of calyx, and peltoid shields, within a band of anthemia enclosed by scrolled hears, and framed by arabesques, acanthus leaves, anthemia, enclosed rosettes, rosettes and olive leaves, and a band of volutes, anthemia and rosettes, and a band of enclosed rosettes and anthemia within repeating lozenges, and with bordering compartments of lunette-shaped fans, and lozenges ornamented with calyx, and enclosing rosettes
Scale
to a scale
Signed and dated
- date range: 1765-66
Medium and dimensions
Pen and coloured washes including pink and verdigris within a double ruled border on laid paper (618 x 414)
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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