• Pietro Bracci (architect)
• Pietro Bracci (draughtsman)

View and plan for a garden bridge with six staircases

between 1715 and 1738

- This plan and pictorial drawing are for a garden bridge. The bridge has a large pentagonal platform over the river, with two flights of stairs leading up from one bank and four flights of stairs leading down to the other bank.

• dessin de présentation
• record drawing

Brush and grey wash with some pen and brown ink, over black chalk

secondary support: 29.8 x 22.5 cm sheet: 26.9 x 19.8 cm

DR1966:0001:015

• line drawing
• finished drawing

• pictorial drawing
• plan (drawing)

• exterior view

- There are some calculations and sketches visible from the verso of the support. The drawing is framed by a pen and grey ink double border on the edge of the sheet.

inscribed - by the draughtsman ? in pen and brown ink, t.: "Inventione di Ornato di / Scalinata, che forma ponte / ad un ruscello in un Giar= / dino, e fà Prospettiva nel / tempo medemo a Tre / grandi viali di detto" inscribed - by the draughtsman, verso: "Pianta della scala sopra il giardinetto / della Certosa in Napoli / Scali sono n.o 3 / quali oncia 10 [...]"; and with other inscriptions relating to measurements numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, u.l.: "15"; and verso, l.r.: "15"

• architecture de paysage
• ingénierie

• bridge (built work)
• garden structure