• Albert Barnekow (architect)
• Albert Barnekow (draughtsman)

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

second half of the 19th century

- 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).

• theoretical drawing

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

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

DR1982:0124:001-006

• sketch

• pictorial drawing

• interior view

- 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.

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"

• architecture

• fountains
• obelisks
• hall
• visionary architecture
• monuments
• colonnades
• baldachin
• Neoclassical