Title
[Elevation of Palazzo Contarini at San Trovaso, 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 36.5 cm.
Description
Fac_ade of the four-storey Palazzo Contarini dagli Scrigni-Corfu_, with steps leading to arched entrance with mask as keystone decoration, flanked by lintelled windows in the two rusticated lower floors surmounted by two floors of arched windows with balconies between paired pilasters of the Ionic and Composite orders and pediment with Serlian window above the cornice of the central bay.
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.