Title
PROFILO DELLA CITTA DI CANDIA.
Publication details
[about 1630]
Physical details
1 drawing : ink and watercolour with some bodycolour ; sheet 20.2 x 95 cm
Description
View of He_rakleion (Heraklion) from the West, with the steeples of St. Nicholas, St. Titus, St. Mark, St. Catherine, Church of the Three Martyrs, St. Onuphrius, St. John, St. Salvador, St. Jerome, and St. Mary seen in this order above the city walls and rooftops in the foreground and the Aegean Sea, Dia island, castle and Mount Juktas in the background. Within ornamental frame with flowers, foliage and arms of the Molin family (mill wheels).
Place
E_rakleion (Greece)
Additional information
From a Venetian collection of Italian and Netherlandish manuscript plans of forts and military engagements bound in two volumes and produced for Marco and Domenico Molino (or Molin). The second volume includes some figure studies and portraits; a number of architectural drawings can also be found in both volumes. Formerly in the collection of Hans Sloane, who offered them to queen Caroline of Ansbach as a gift in 1735.
Shelfmark
Maps K.Top.78.31.a.(vol.i.16.)