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[97] Finished drawing for an ornamental grotesque panel, c1765-66, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 15/43
Purpose
[97] Finished drawing for an ornamental grotesque panel, c1765-66, unexecuted
Aspect
(97) Elevation of a rectangular panel - possibly for a wall - with a lunette-shaped tablet containing putti, putti fauns and a goat, and a ground ornamented with figures, winged half putti, masks, enclosed ram masks, winged sphinxes, fauns, baskets and urns of foliage, two figures of Britannia under canopies, half swans, birds, swags, ribbons, urns, patera, rosettes, arabesques, acanthus leaves, laurel leaves, calyx and a variety of foliage
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, cerulean blue and terre verte within a double ruled border on laid paper (579 x 368)
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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