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