Title
[Elevation of Palazzo Grimani at San Marcuola, 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 three-storey fac_ade of Ca' Vendramin Calergi (Palazzo Grimani), with steps leading to arched entrance between pilasters flanked by paired windows supported by columns within semicircular arches and roundels decorated with busts in the spandrels, surmounted by two floors of windows between engaged columns and frieze decorated with horses and eagles under the cornice.
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.