Plan for a magazine for storing gunpowder and cannonballs

People:

Giovanni Antonio Zani (architect)
Giovanni Antonio Zani (draughtsman)

Title:

Plan for a magazine for storing gunpowder and cannonballs

Date:

ca. 1630-1640

Form:
drawings

Quantity / Object type:
1 drawing(s)

Stage and Purpose:

design development drawing
record drawing

Technique and media:

Pen and grey ink with pink watercolour over black chalk underdrawing

Dimensions:

sheet: 27.7 x 19.7 cm

Reference number:

DR1981:0017:066 V

Drawing Type:

finished drawing

Method of Projection:

plan (drawing)

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- This drawing was formerly bound into an album as indicated by the ampersands indicating pagination. There are indentations along the r. edge of the sheet, possibly from previous stitching into a binding. Small holes throughout the sheet were made by compass points or dividers. A partial watermark at the c.r. appears to be the other half of the watermark on DR1981:0017:067.

Inscription:

inscribed - by the draughtsman, in pen and brown ink, t.: "Pianta d'altra Toretta fatta di novo di maggior / grandezza, e comodo per Polvere e Palle / la quale importo di spesa di scudi [...] 4670"; and with further inscriptions throughout identifying parts of building inscribed - by a contemporary hand, in pen and black ink, l.r.: "&&:"

Subject:

architecture
military

Subject Descriptive Terms:

tower (single built work)
stairs
arsenal
magazine (military building)

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

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