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  • image SM Adam volume 15/44

Reference number

SM Adam volume 15/44

Purpose

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

Aspect

(98) Elevation of a pointed-arch-shaped panel - possibly for a wall or pointed niche head - with two rectangular tablets containing winged sphinxes and winged putti, and a ground ornamented with a figure holding a spear beneath a canopy supported by four herms, winged half putti, urns, birds, swags, winged half figures, a mask, half dragons, arabesques, acanthus leaves, patera, calyx and laurel leaves

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

  • Io Giuseppe Manocchi Romano and date range: 1765-66

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes including sepia, red and cerulean blue within a double ruled border on laid paper (600 x 358)

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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