• Giacomo Quarenghi (architect)
• Giacomo Quarenghi (draughtsman)

Plan, elevation, and sections of a garden coffee house

ca. 1800

- A long, rectangular garden structure in the form of a loggia separating two small end pavilions. The loggia, consisting of five bays articulated by freestanding Doric columns, is approached by steps across its entire width and opens onto a series of niches occupied by sculptural figures in the rear wall. The end pavilions, which show on the main exterior elevation a pedimented window framed by rustication and a molded arch, are square in plan and capped by a dome not expressed on the exterior.

• theoretical drawing

Pen and black ink with watercolour over graphite

sheet: 34.3 x 49.6 cm

DR1987:0273

• rendering

• plan (drawing)
• section
• elevation (drawing)

inscribed - by a 19th-century hand, in pen and brown ink, l.l.: "Il Cavaliere Giulio Quarenghi donò al C.P.V.[?superscript] Sozzi / con lett[er] accompagnatoria 12-Luglio 1862 / [unendovi?] un'autografo del celebre suo Genitore Cav.e Giacomo, sottoscrittevi alcune righe / di mano dell'Augusta Imperatrice Caterina"; l.r.: "Vedesi a stampa nelle Fabbriche del Quarenghi edite dal Cav. Giulio suo figlio / coi Tip[ograf]i Negretti in Mantova nel 1843. Opera dedicata al Granduca Ered[it]o delle Russie / La descizione di questo Caffeaus è a pag[in]a 29 il disegno alla Tavola 56."; by a modern hand, in graphite, l.l.: "38[underlined]"; "Execut[?] [illegible]"

• architecture
• architecture de paysage

• coffeehouse
• pavilion
• garden structure