• Charles de Wailly (draughtsman)

Bird's-eye perspective of the Piazza del Popolo, Rome

1759

• topographical view

Pen and brown ink, gray and brown washes, orange watercolour and white gouache highlights over graphite and stylus underdrawing, on laid paper plume et encre brune, lavis gris et brun, aquarelle orangée et rehauts de gouache blanche sur crayon graphite, sur papier vergé

sheet: 20.2 x 32.6 cm

DR1987:0033

• rendering

• perspective drawing
• pictorial drawing

• partial view
• bird's-eye view
• exterior view

- Drawing has brown ink border. Head of horse drawn in iron gall ink on verso, shows through at u.l.

signed and dated - by the draughtsman, in pen and brown ink over black chalk, l.r.: "De Wailly / 1759" inscribed - by the draughtsman, in brush and brown ink, l.c. [at the base of obelisk]: "DW" [interlaced] stamped - in typescript, on the secondary support, l.r.,: "ARD" [initials of an unidentified 18th century French matmaker (Denison, 162)] inscribed - by an unknown hand, in pen and brown ink, on the secondary support, verso, l.l.: "No 37---" inscribed - by an unknown hand, in pen and brown ink, on the secondary support, verso, u.l.: "De Wailly" inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, verso, l.r.: [illeg.]

Rome; Italy

• architecture
• topographique

• figures (representations)
• obelisk
• piazza
• churches