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Six sketches for buildings and monuments honouring Alberto I, including two designs for a monumental hallway and a design for a triumphal arch
People:
  • Albert Barnekow (draughtsman)
  • Albert Barnekow (architect)
Title:

Six sketches for buildings and monuments honouring Alberto I, including two designs for a monumental hallway and a design for a triumphal arch

Date:

second half of the 19th century

Description:

- The six drawings depict a monumental hallway (DR1982:0128 V:001, DR1982:0128 V:003), a gothic façade (DR1982:0128 V:002), the entrance to an arsenal (DR1982:0128 V:004), a plan for a colosseum (DR1982:0128 V:005), and a triumphal arch (DR1982:0128 V:006). The clipping of printed text below DR1982:0128 V:002 describes St. Anskar (801-865), who was instrumental in the initial Christianization of Sweden (Farmer 1987, 21).

Form:
drawings
textual records
Quantity / Object type:
1 page(s)
Stage and Purpose:
  • theoretical drawings
Technique and media:

Pen and greyish brown ink with wash, and some pen and black ink

Dimensions:

sheet (smallest): 9,4 x 12,6 cm sheet (largest): 25,1 x 19 cm secondary support: 51,8 x 34,6 cm

Reference number:

DR1982:0128 V:001-006

Drawing Type:
  • sketches
Method of Projection:
  • pictorial drawings
  • plan (drawing)
  • sketch elevation (drawing)
Point of View:
  • interior view
Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- Six drawings and one clipping are mounted on a secondary support which was formerly a page from an album or portfolio.

Inscription:

inscribed - on DR1982:0128 V:005, by the draughtsman, in pen and dark brown ink, u.l.: "col[i]seo Barnekow"; and c.: "Sircus [sic] Albertinae Maximus / Parnasso Palatino" inscribed - on the secondary support, by the draughtsman, in pen and grey ink, c.l.: "Galleria Triumfale" [below DR1982:0128 V:001]; c.l.: "del Arsenalo" [below DR1982:0128 V:004]; b.: "Porta del Gl[oa]ro Herniko" [below DR1982:0128 V:006] imprinted - in black ink, u.r.: with text in German describing St. Anskar [below DR1982:0128 V:002]

Subject:
  • architecture
Subject Descriptive Terms:
  • halls
  • façade
  • triumphal arch
  • visionary architecture
  • monuments
  • arsenal
  • arena
  • Neoclassical
  • Gothic Revival
Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
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