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[63] Finished drawing for a ceiling, c1765-66, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 15/91
Purpose
[63] Finished drawing for a ceiling, c1765-66, unexecuted
Aspect
(63) Hexagonal plan showing half of an octagonal ceiling, with lozenge panels enclosing military trophies, and figurative medallions, and a ground ornamented with a patera encircled by fluting, cable moulding, winged half figures, swags, winged griffons flanking urns, an octagonal band of Vitruvian scroll, festoons, masks, figures, lozenges enclosing masks, and arabesques of acanthus leaves and rosettes, and a bordering band of enclosed patera, winged half figures, and arabesques of acanthus leaves and rosettes
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
By Manocchi (in pencil in the hand of Sir John Summerson) / Removed from Vol 14 in 1913. (in red pen in the hand of A.T. Bolton)
Signed and dated
- date range: 1765-66
Medium and dimensions
Pen and coloured washes including yellow ochre and cerulean blue within a single ruled border on laid paper (585 x 365)
Hand
Giuseppe Manocchi
Notes
See scheme notes.
Literature
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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