Title
[Palazzo Rucellai al Corso, Rome].
Creator
Fontana, Carlo, 1634-1714, artist.
Publication details
[between 1670 and 1700]
Physical details
1 drawing : pencil and ink ; sheet 41.8 x 54 cm
Description
Plan of Palazzo Rucellai, with only perimetric walls and rooms facing the Strada del Corso indicated by dotted lines; scale at right.
Place
Rome (Italy)
Additional information
Bound with twenty architectural drawings and some notes by Carlo Fontana in one of the twenty-four volumes from the collection of Cardinal Albani acquired by James Adam for George III in 1762. This volume corresponds to no. 20 in Giovanni Battista Contini's 1716 inventory of Albani's collection, where its contents are described as 'Conclaue Circondario Vaticano Seminario di / Siena Ruscellai' (Braham, A. and Hager, H., Carlo Fontana. The Drawings at Windsor Castle, London, 1977, p. 3). For other two volumes of drawings by Fontana in the King's Topographical Collection, see 118.e.14. and Maps 7.Tab.46. This is one of six drawings that Hager considers as derived from Fontana's designs for the renovation of the Roman Palazzo Altieri in Piazza del Gesu_ in the early 1670s and pertaining to a project for the Palazzo Rucellai al Corso (now Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome) that was never executed. A piece of paper annotated in brown ink 'Historie / toscana Acqua di Civita Vecchia Nautica [illegible] is pasted on the verso; also on verso annotation 'Rucellai' in ink and two drawings in pencil, one showing what might be a fragment of a cornice seen in perspective.
Shelfmark
Maps 7.Tab.57.16.