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  • image SM Adam volume 15/77

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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