• Domenico Fontana (architect)
• Unknown, Italy, early 17th century (engraver (printmaker))

Elevation and plan of the principal façade of the Palazzo reale, Naples

1606

• record drawing

Engraving and etching

sheet: 56.5 x 42.2 cm

DR1990:0060

• rendering

• plan (drawing)
• elevation (drawing)

- Façade and plan of the Palazzo reale, Naples, printed separately on three sheets, later trimmed and pasted together (sheets not aligned perfectly). Some vertical trims are within the plate mark. One old fold runs horizontally across the c. of all three sheets; two folds run vertically at the join between the sheets (c.l. and c.r.). There are two (stitch ?) holes at the top of each sheet (u.l., t., u.r.). The image is badly abraided by the border and at the joins.

imprinted and dated - by the architect, u.l.: "ALLA MAESTA DEL CATOLICO RE FILIPPO III ..." imprinted - t.: with two inscriptions concerning the façade imprinted - u.r.: with title and description of print

• architecture