Elevation, section, and plan for Borromini's portal for the Vigna of Bernardino Missori outside the Porta Pia, Rome
between 1715 and 1773
- Half section of a gateway to a villa with a plan below. The upper drawing includes the view through the gateway into the garden.
Pen and black ink and grey and brown wash, over traces of black chalk ?
sheet: 50.1 x 31.3 cm
DR1966:0001:063
- The drawing is framed by a pen and brown ink border just inside the edge of the sheet. A tear at the u.r. has been repaired.
inscribed - by the draughtsman ? in pen and brown ink, t.: "Portico, che al di fuori forma Portone di Villa, et al di dentro serue [sic] di vestibulo all'in= / gresso della medema, sopra del quale ui [sic] è l'abitazione per il Portinaro; questo esiste / fuori di Porta Pia, inuentato [sic], et fatto eseguire dal Boromino [sic]" numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, u.l.: "63"; and verso, l.r.: "63" numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, verso, l.r.: "63" [written upside down]
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