Plan showing the "half-moon" fortifications, Ferrara

People:

Luca Danese (draughtsman)

Title:

Plan showing the "half-moon" fortifications, Ferrara

Date:

1637

Form:
drawings

Quantity / Object type:
1 drawing(s)

Stage and Purpose:

design development drawing

Technique and media:

Pen and brown ink with red and green watercolour over black chalk underdrawing

Dimensions:

secondary support: 27.8 x 20.1 cm sheet: 24.3 x 17.5 cm

Reference number:

DR1981:0017:057 R

Drawing Type:

line drawing
finished drawing

Method of Projection:

plan (drawing)

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- This drawing is laid down on a secondary support which was formerly bound into an album as indicated by the traces of guards, the letter indicating pagination, and the discolouration at the l.r. corner where the page was turned.

Inscription:

inscribed, signed and dated - by the draughtsman, in pen and brown ink, c. to b.: with an inscription describing the survey of the "meze lune" fortifications at Ferrara; b.: "feb 1637 *, LD"

Subject:

architecture
military

Subject Descriptive Terms:

fortifications

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

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