Six sketches for buildings and monuments honouring Alberto I, including three designs for fountains

People:

Albert Barnekow (architect)
Albert Barnekow (draughtsman)

Title:

Six sketches for buildings and monuments honouring Alberto I, including three designs for fountains

Date:

second half of the 19th century

Description:

- The subjects of the six drawings include three designs for a monumental fountain (DR1982:0124:002, DR1982:0124:004 and DR1982:0124:005), a fragment of a drawing showing a crown (DR1982:0124:001), a tiny drawing showing a canopy surmounted by a crown (DR1982:0124:003), and a room of monumental proportions flanked by colonnades (DR1982:0124:006).

Form:
drawings
textual records

Quantity / Object type:
1 page(s)

Stage and Purpose:

theoretical drawing

Technique and media:

Pen and brown or black ink with additions in watercolour and brownish grey wash

Dimensions:

sheet (smallest): 3,9 x 3,6 cm sheet (largest): 25 x 19,2 cm secondary support: 49 x 50,7 cm

Reference number:

DR1982:0124:001-006

Drawing Type:

sketch

Method of Projection:

pictorial drawing

Point of View:

interior view

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- Six drawings are mounted on secondary support, which was formerly a page from an album or portfolio. The secondary support has been trimmed to fit the shape of the drawings. Newspaper clippings in Italian on the verso refer to 19th century French and Italian politics.

Inscription:

inscribed - on DR1982:0124:002, by the draughtsman, in pen and dark brown ink, b.: "Fontana Laurea Albertinae" inscribed - on DR19820124:004, by the draughtsman, in pen and dark brown ink, b.: "Fontana Barnekow" inscribed - on the secondary support, by the draughtsman, in pen and dark brown ink, u.c.: "Stell[a Coronalis ...] S.S. Annunziata" numbered - on the secondary support, by an unknown hand, in graphite, u.r.: "1"

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

fountains
obelisks
hall
visionary architecture
monuments
colonnades
baldachin
Neoclassical

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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