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

Sketch and a manuscript relating to the coronation ceremony of Alberto I

second half of the 19th century

- The drawing apparently depicts a coronation ceremony showing an interior resembling that of St. Peter's, Rome, looking towards the altar. Under the dome there is an elevated throne with a baldachin formed by a huge central crown with swags of red fabric which extend from the crown to the piers at the crossing. The design for a smaller structure which figures below is probably an earlier drawing.

• theoretical drawing

Pen and brown ink with watercolour and gouache

sheet (smallest): 5 x 18,5 cm sheet (largest): 17 x 15,9 cm secondary support (irreg.): 37,7 x 33,2 cm

DR1982:0127 R

• sketch

• pictorial drawing

• interior view

- A drawing and a manuscript are mounted on a secondary support which was formerly a page from an album or portfolio. The severe abrasions to the drawing are due to modifications by the draughtsman. The drawing extends onto the secondary support.

inscribed - by the draughtsman, in pen and light brownish-grey ink, u.c.: "Patrizio Palatino di Stato libro di ogni tributo per [...d] e [sue] dicende[nto] / Patrizio di Stato libro di ogni tributo"; and in dark brown ink, u.c.: " -mentre vive - / Nobile Henriko - con donazione del Sorrano - di feodi perpetuo - all ves[...] / della famiglia - fid[...] co[m]iss- / donazioni del Sorrano [...]sta i[n]vi[n]dibile-del benificato- / con fid[ei]comisso -- in perpetuo" numbered - on the secondary support, by an unknown hand, in graphite, u.r.: "4" inscribed - on the secondary support, by an unknown hand, in graphite, u.l.: "20.000"

• architecture

• dome
• steps
• visionary architecture
• baldachin
• throne
• Neoclassical
• crossing