Fourteen sketches for buildings and monuments honouring Alberto I, and two prints

People:

Albert Barnekow (draughtsman)
Albert Barnekow (architect)

Title:

Fourteen sketches for buildings and monuments honouring Alberto I, and two prints

Date:

second half of the 19th century

Description:

- The fourteen drawings depict six designs for the coronation arch of Alberto I, two designs for a structure resembling a mausoleum set into a monumental staircase, a design for a fountain supporting the coats of arms of Alberto I, and city views, including a view of a bridge culminating in a giant pavilion. The two photomechanical prints show a plan of Durham Cathedral and a design for a lion which is partly torn off.

Form:
drawings
textual records
works of art

Quantity / Object type:
1 page(s)

Stage and Purpose:

theoretical drawings

Technique and media:

Mostly pen and brown ink, some with wash or watercolour, and two photomechanical prints

Dimensions:

sheet (smallest): 3,8 x 14,1 cm sheet (largest): 10,8 x 24,4 cm secondary support: 49,9 x 33,1 cm

Reference number:

DR1982:0125 V:001-016

Drawing Type:

sketches

Method of Projection:

pictorial drawings

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- Fourteen drawings and two photomechanical prints are mounted on a secondary support which was formerly a page from an album or porfolio.

Inscription:

inscribed - on the secondary support, by the draughtsman, in pen and dark brown ink, c.: "Arco coronalis - di Alberto I" [below DR1982:0125 V:008]; in pen and grey ink, l.c.: "Scala Serafimo del SS Annunziata" [below DR1982:0125 V:0012]; in pen and light grey ink, l.l.: "[B]orgo Barnekow" signed - on DR1982:0125 V:008, by the draughtsman, in pen and dark brown ink, l.r.: with the monogram of Alberto I imprinted - on DR1982:0125 V:006, on the photomechanical print in letterpress, c.l. to l.l.: "Grundrisse der Kathedrale zu Durham"

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

fountains
mausoleum
bridge (built work)
churches
visionary architecture
monuments
ramparts
bastions
triumphal arches
Neoclassical
Gothic Revival

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

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