• Pietro Bracci (engineer)
• Pietro Bracci (draughtsman)

Plan of Rome near Monte Testaccio with ballistics calculations

1735

- This plan of Rome near Monte Testaccio includes fortifications and the identification of prominent landmarks such as the pyramid of Gaius Cestius.

• dessin de présentation

Pen and black ink and brown, orange, red, and green wash over black chalk and possibly graphite

sheet: 50.9 x 35.2 cm

DR1966:0001:090

• line drawing
• mechanical drawing (tool-aided drawing)
• finished drawing

• site plan

• aerial view

- There is an old fold across the c. of the sheet. The drawing is framed by a pen and brown ink double border just inside the edge of the sheet.

signed, dated, and inscribed - by the draughtsman, in pen and black ink, touched up with brown ink, l.l.: "Pietro Bracci Ingegniere F. 1735"; t.: with title; and in various locations: with identification of landmarks such as "Piramide / di. C. Castio" and engineering calculations numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, u.l.: "90"; and u.r.: "90" [written sideways] numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, verso, u.r.: "90" [written sideways]

• ingénierie
• militaire

• city walls
• fortifications
• military map