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  • image SM Adam volume 15/20

Reference number

SM Adam volume 15/20

Purpose

[81] Finished drawing for an ornamental grotesque panel, c1765-66, unexecuted

Aspect

(81) Elevations for three bands of ornament - possibly for walls - with winged half figures with lion heads, a putti faun holding swags and supported by a tubular flower, acanthus leaves, olive leaves, rosettes, and calyx

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

  • date range: 1765-66

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes including pink, violet, verdigris and cerulean blue within a single ruled border on laid paper (272 x 381)

Hand

Giuseppe Manocchi

Notes

See scheme notes.

Literature

Spiers, 1979, p. 28 For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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