Title
[Lago di Bracciano, with Santa Fiora spring and remains of the Aqua Traiana].
Creator
Fontana, Carlo, 1634-1714, artist.
Publication details
[around 1695]
Physical details
1 drawing : ink and grey wash ; sheet 31.4 x 44.2 cm
Description
Bird's-eye view of the countryside surrounding Lake Bracciano, with lake in the foreground and the hydraulic works running across the fields around Manziana that brought the water from the Santa Fiora spring in the background beyond; empty cartouche at bottom left.
Place
Bracciano Lake (Italy)
Additional information
Bound in one of the three volumes of architectural drawings by Carlo Fontana included in the Geographical Collections and acquired for George III by James Adam from the collection of Cardinal Albani. The drawing is followed by some manuscript notes entitled 'Scandaglio della spesa a rinovar l'acquedotto reale dell' antica Acqua Alsietina, la quale e ora si chiama della Fiora' and by a larger drawing of the same location from the same point of view explained by key below (see Maps 7.Tab.46.9.). The hydraulic works around Lake Bracciano represented in these drawings were also discussed by Fontana in his 'Utilissimo trattato dell'acque correnti [...] con una esatta notizia di tutto quello, ch'e_ stato operato intorno alla conduttura dell' Acqua di Bracciano' (1696). The third volume of this treatise refers to Fontana's visit to the lake in April 1691, when he measured the amount of water flowing into it from River Arrone and studied the system used to regulate its levels. According to Braham and Hager, these drawings 'were probably intended as illustrations in a book which Fontana hoped to publish, Il Libro della Toscana antica, con la narrativa della Condottura dell'Acqua Trajana a Civita Vecchia"."
Shelfmark
Maps 7.Tab.46.8.