• Unknown, Italy, mid 16th century (engraver (printmaker))
• Antoine Lafréry (publisher)
• Antonio da Sangallo the Younger (architect)
• Pope Paul III (patron)
• Michelangelo Buonarroti (architect)

Sectional elevation of the Palazzo Farnese courtyard, Rome

printed 1560

• record drawing

Engraving on laid paper

sheet: 39.8 x 50.6 cm (15 11/16 x 19 15/16 in.)

DR1979:0331

• line drawing

• sectional perspective

• partial view
• exterior view
• interior view

- Sheet is trimmed within plate mark and has an old vertical fold through c. and possibly traces of an offset image of an unidentified print on the verso.

inscribed and dated - by the engraver ? in the plate below the image, l.l. to l.r.: "Palatij farnesij Romae non procul a reliquijs Theatri Pompeij olim e solidissimo Tiburtino lapide non minore architecture comendatione ab Antonio / Sagallo [sic] inchoati, quam stupendo artificio per Michaelem Angelum omnibus numeris consumati, quantum artificio diligentia assequi potuit interioris / partis expressio, atq. in intimo eius ambulacro duaru Herculis statuar. icones formis Antoni Lafrerij Sequani. M. D: l X." numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, u.r.: "88" numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, verso, in various locations: "88"

• architecture