Title
[Elevation of Palazzo Bon at San Barnaba, Venice].
Creator
Visentini, Antonio, 1688-1782, artist.
Publication details
[between 1730 and 1740]
Physical details
1 drawing : brown ink and grey wash ; sheet 52.5 x 36.5cm.
Description
View of the main fac_ade of Palazzo Bon (Ca' Rezzonico), with steps leading to tripartite lintelled entrance supported by rusticated columns and flanked by lintelled windows with masks as keystone decoration and lion heads within medallions below on the ground floor surmounted by two piani nobili consisting of arches supported and flanked by columns of the Ionic and Composite orders, also with masks as keystone decoration held by putti in the spandrels.
Place
Venice (Italy)
Additional information
From a collection of tinted Architectural Drawings of Churches, Palaces, and other edifices in Venice, their plans, elevations, etc. Probably by Antonio Visentini and members of his workshop. Prefixed to each tome are the Arms of Joseph Smith, formerly British Consul at Venice, to whom the work once belonged; and a table in MS. entitled:
Shelfmark
71.i.1.