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  • image SM Adam volume 15/35

Reference number

SM Adam volume 15/35

Purpose

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

Aspect

(91) Elevation of a rectangular panel - possibly for a pilaster - with a vesica-shaped figurative medallion, and a rectangular figurative tablet, and a ground ornamented with lions, dolphins masks, urns, a fan, winged half putti, an oval cameo, tubular flowers, calyx, acanthus leaves, arabesques, swags, rosettes, anthemia and laurel leaves

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 Indian yellow, red and terre verte within a single ruled border on laid paper (247 x 694)

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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