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[78] Finished drawing for a ceiling or a carpet, c1765-66, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 15/110
Purpose
[78] Finished drawing for a ceiling or a carpet, c1765-66, unexecuted
Aspect
(78) Plan of a square, compartmental design, divided by bands of cable moulding into squares, and with smaller squares containing rosettes and calyx at the corners of the central compartment. Each square contains a patera encircled by a fan or enclosed anthemia, a band of Vitruvian scroll, arabesques, acanthus leaves, rosettes, and calyx
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 pink and verdigris within a single ruled border on laid paper (374 x 429)
Hand
Giuseppe Manocchi
Notes
See scheme notes.
Literature
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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