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  • image SM Adam volume 15/40

Reference number

SM Adam volume 15/40

Purpose

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

Aspect

(95) Elevation of a pointed-arch-shaped panel - possibly for a wall or pointed niche head - with a tablet containing a reclining female figure and a faun, and a ground ornamented with winged half putti, ribbons, swags, a fan, a figure supported by a small globe, half figures, half dragons, winged putti, winged half figures supporting urns of foliage, tubular flowers, olive leaves, wheat sheaves, arabesques, calyx, acanthus leaves and rosettes

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

  • 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 (465 x 290)

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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