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[83] Finished drawing for an ornamental grotesque panel, c1765-66, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 15/22
Purpose
[83] Finished drawing for an ornamental grotesque panel, c1765-66, unexecuted
Aspect
(83) Elevation of a lozenge-shaped panel - possibly for a wall - with a rectangular tablet containing half putti riding two dolphins and a half goat, and a ground ornamented with enclosed ram masks, half putti, enclosed masks, a faun supported by a tubular flower, ribbons, arabesques, acanthus leaves, calyx, oak leaves, and a variety of foliage
Scale
to a scale
Signed and dated
- date range: 1765-66
Medium and dimensions
Pen and coloured washes including black, red and violet within a single ruled border on laid paper (388 x 390)
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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