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[64] Finished drawing for a ceiling, c1765-66, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 15/92
Purpose
[64] Finished drawing for a ceiling, c1765-66, unexecuted
Aspect
(64) Lunette-shaped plan showing half of a circular ceiling with vesica-shaped figurative medallions alternating with military trophies, and a ground ornamented with a patera, drops of calyx, anthemia, arabesques, and festoons, and with a bordering band of enclosed patera, urns, winged putti, arabesques, acanthus leaves, calyx and rosettes
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
By G. 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, Indian red and cerulean blue within a single ruled border on laid paper (588 x 367)
Hand
Giuseppe Manocchi
Notes
This drawing, along with three others by Manocchi within the Adam drawings collection at Sir John Soane's Museum, has pin holes in the margins. Such holes are the result of the paper being pinned to a board during the drawing and washing process. This was common practice and it is likely that the other Manocchi drawings also had such pin holes until they were cropped away.
See scheme notes.
See scheme notes.
Literature
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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