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[99] Finished drawing for an ornamental grotesque panel, c1765-66, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 15/49
Purpose
[99] Finished drawing for an ornamental grotesque panel, c1765-66, unexecuted
Aspect
(99) Elevation of a panel of ornament behind an arch, with half figures, two of which pose as terms, and one of which supports a basket, swags, ribbons, arabesques, acanthus leaves, calyx, wheat sheaves, tubular flowers, and patera
Scale
to a scale
Signed and dated
- date range: 1765-66
Medium and dimensions
Pen and coloured washes including pink, verdigris and cerulean blue within a single ruled border on laid paper (423 x 323)
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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