Title
[Palazzo Rucellai al Corso, Rome].
Creator
Fontana, Carlo, 1634-1714, artist.
Publication details
[between 1670 and 1700]
Physical details
1 drawing : pencil, ink and wash ; sheet 41.8 x 54 cm
Description
Proposal for the new plan of Palazzo Rucellai in Rome, with chambers, antechambers and porticoed gallery arranged around a central courtyard with monumental fountain within niche; scale above. Annotated in pencil at lower right (illegible).
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. Annotated on verso in ink: 'B[?]egra del sito de Rucellai al Corso'.
Shelfmark
Maps 7.Tab.57.21.