Title
[Elevation of Palazzo Pesaro at Sant'Eustachio, 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' Pesaro, with steps leading to two arched doorways and a basin within niche, all with masks as keystone decoration and allegorical figures in the spandrels, and lintelled windows on both sides, in a diamond-faced rusticated ground floor above a rusticated basement, surmounted by two floors of arches between engaged columns of the Ionic and Composite orders and entablature decorated with garlands and crowns.
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.