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[72] Finished drawing for a ceiling or a carpet, c1765-66, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 15/102
Purpose
[72] Finished drawing for a ceiling or a carpet, c1765-66, unexecuted
Aspect
(72) Plan of a circular design, with a patera encircled by a fan enclosing calyx and rosettes, cable moulding, anthemia, all within a square compartment, with four adjacent lunettes containing rosettes enclosed by fluting, and a ground ornamented with anthemia, calyx, and urns, a lozenge of fluting, arabesques, acanthus leaves, calyx, rosettes and urns, and a circular border of enclosed 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, pink and cerulean blue within a single circular border on laid paper (367 x 492)
Hand
Giuseppe Manocchi
Notes
See scheme notes.
Literature
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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