Title
[Piazza San Pietro, Vatican].
Creator
Fontana, Carlo, 1634-1714, artist.
Publication details
[between 1670 and 1700]
Physical details
1 drawing : pencil, ink and wash ; sheet 41.4 x 73.8 cm
Description
Plan of the area of St Peter's Square to the south and north, with scale pasted below. On two sheets.
Place
Vatican City
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. The plan of St Peter's Square with the adjacent garden of the Palazzo Cesi nel Borgo was first mentioned by Lanciani in vol. IV of his Storia degli Scavi (1902). It has been reproduced by Sabine Eiche,
Shelfmark
Maps 7.Tab.57.9.