Title
[Elevation of Palazzo Sagredo at Santa Sofia, Venice].
Creator
Visentini, Antonio, 1688-1782, artist.
Publication details
[1733]
Physical details
1 drawing : brown ink and grey wash ; sheet 52.5 x 36 cm.
Description
View of the fac_ade of Palazzo Sagredo, with rusticated basement, steps leading to two arched entrances flanked by lintelled windows between Doric pilasters of the giant order in the rusticated ground floor, loggia with balcony and arched windows under alternating pediments and segmental pediments between Ionic pilasters in the piano nobile, and lintelled windows under pediments between Ionic pilasters in the attic; dated in pencil in the base of the pilasters of the ground floor: '17 / AA / 33'.
Place
Venice (Italy)
Additional information
From a collection of tinted Architectural Drawings of Churches, Palaces, and other edifices in Venice, their plans, elevations, etc. Probably by Antonio Visentini and members of his workshop. Prefixed to each tome are the Arms of Joseph Smith, formerly British Consul at Venice, to whom the work once belonged; and a table in MS. entitled:
Shelfmark
71.i.2.