Title
[Elevation of Palazzo Cornaro at San Canciano, 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
View of the fac_ade of the five-storey Ca' Corner della Regina, with rusticated basement and ground floor, steps leading to arched entrance and to two lintelled doorways flanked by lintelled windows, all with masks as keystone decoration, surmounted by a first floor of arches between paired Ionic columns with balcony and a second floor of lintelled windows with pediments under an attic of plain lintelled windows and a cornice with dentils.
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.