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[101] Finished drawing for an ornamental grotesque panel, c1765-66, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 15/77
Purpose
[101] Finished drawing for an ornamental grotesque panel, c1765-66, unexecuted
Aspect
(101) Elevation of bands and a quadrilateral panel of ornamentation - possibly for a wall or item of furniture - with a winged sphinx, half dolphins, winged half putti, a winged half figure supporting a basket, half figures beneath canopies, swags, urns, arabesques, acanthus leaves, laurel leaves, olive leaves, calyx, anthemia, rosettes and festoons of bead and reel
Scale
to a scale
Signed and dated
- date range: 1765-66
Medium and dimensions
Pen and coloured washes including cerulean blue, pink, verdigris and red within a single ruled border on laid paper (423 x 381)
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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