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  • image SM Adam volume 15/28

Reference number

SM Adam volume 15/28

Purpose

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

Aspect

(87) Elevation of a rectangular panel - possibly for a wall - ornamented with putti, tubular flowers, masks, baskets, winged sphinxes, half swans, half figures, swags, a figure draped in a swag of material and supported by an urn, winged half putti, swans, enclosed rosettes, olive leaves, calyx, acanthus leaves, arabesques, oak leaves, ribbons, rosettes, patera and anthemia

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

  • Io Giuseppe Manocchi Romano (this has been scratched out and is very feint) and date range: 1765-66

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes including yellow ochre, terre verte and cerulean blue within a double ruled border on laid paper (324 x 535)

Hand

Giuseppe Manocchi

Notes

See scheme notes.

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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