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Text and two sketches of theatrical equipment concerned with the design and construction of a water fountain or fontana. A sketch of artificial flowers mounted on a base of lead described by Carapeccia (recto)

Maker

(artist)
1661-1738

Title

Text and two sketches of theatrical equipment concerned with the design and construction of a water fountain or fontana. A sketch of artificial flowers mounted on a base of lead described by Carapeccia (recto)

Medium

medium : material : pen and brown ink & support : material : paper

Dimensions

Height: 22.3 cm
Width: 16.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1956.WF.4649.118

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Fund, purchase, 1956 (September)

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords









flower & mound







Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: Inscription : written : centre & recto : : Il modo che si dovera tenere per far fare una fontana di / un pozzo [colon] si fara come si vede, modo molto facile e / mai piu usato ancorche no isa aqua corrente. //

Inscription: Inscription : written : right & recto : : Il modo e invenzio / ne di Romano Ca / pechia di fare che /quando la dea / Flora inflora / li i prati, restando / sopra il sudo, si / alsano da loro come / nel modo che / insegnai M.r. Cesere / come si vede. / piombo //

Inscription: Inscription : written : lower centre & recto : : Il modo di fare una Galeria delle Gioie, le quali con / torce dietro si luminera come quelle fatte dal Contestabile. //

Inscription: Inscription : written : upper centre & verso : : Il modo de disegnare le scene de' teatri. Si disegneranno / in dui modi [colon] il primo si portria disegnare con mettere i / punti, quando pero fusse luogo capace di potere far ques / to [semicolon] e quando non vi fusse luogo capace, si digradera/ nno con graticolazione come fece l'alievo del / frate gesuita et io la provaii. //

Inscription: Inscription : written : middle right & verso : : carro di pianta //

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