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[66] Finished drawing for a ceiling or a carpet, c1765-66, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 15/94
Purpose
[66] Finished drawing for a ceiling or a carpet, c1765-66, unexecuted
Aspect
(66) Plan of a square design, with a patera enclosed by a fan, and anthemia, within a lozenge, encircled by arabesques and anthemia enclosed by scrolled hearts, and within a square band of fluting, and with a ground ornamented with lozenges, divided by drops of calyx, and enclosed rosettes, and containing anthemia, and with a border of Vitruvian scroll
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
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 pink and verdigris within a single ruled border on laid paper (397 x 443)
Hand
Giuseppe Manocchi
Notes
See scheme notes.
Literature
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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