View and plan for a garden bridge with six staircases

People:

Pietro Bracci (architect)
Pietro Bracci (draughtsman)

Title:

View and plan for a garden bridge with six staircases

Date:

between 1715 and 1738

Description:

- 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.

Form:
drawings

Quantity / Object type:
1 drawing(s)

Stage and Purpose:

presentation drawing (proposal)
record drawing

Technique and media:

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

Dimensions:

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

Reference number:

DR1966:0001:015

Drawing Type:

line drawing
finished drawing

Method of Projection:

pictorial drawing
plan (drawing)

Point of View:

exterior view

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- 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.

Inscription:

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"

Subject:

landscape architecture
engineering

Subject Descriptive Terms:

bridge (built work)
garden structure

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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