• Unknown, Italy, 16th century (draughtsman)

Perspectival view and section of the round temple on the Forum Boarium (so-called Temple of Hercules Victor), Rome; verso: Nine drawings of details of the round temple on the Forum Boarium (so-called Temple of Hercules Victor), Rome

between 1520 and 1550?

Detail drawings on the verso: elevation of a Corinthian column and section through the cella wall; window frame on the outside of the cella; cornice of the window frame on the outside of the cella; the door frame; cornice on the outside of the cella; base moulding on the door steps to the cella; cornice on the inside of the cella; base moulding on the outside of the cella; base and lower end of the shaft of the columns.

Pen and brown ink and brown wash over ruled blind stylus lines and sanguine and black chalk underdrawing; verso: pen and brown ink and brown wash over ruled blind stylus lines and black chalk underdrawing

sheet: 32.6 x 24.2 cm

DR1982:0020:015

- Single sheet. - Possibly formerly a bifolium with the now lost fol. 18 r/v.

numbered - by an unknown hand, in brown ink, upper right: "23" inscribed - by the draughtsman, in brown ink, below the drawing: "Tempio d[e] la dea ueste, ouer d[e] la fortuna / jn Roma"; below the drawing: "B" (reference to a detail drawing on the verso); in the drawing: "T", "<" (references to detail drawings on the verso); all over the drawing: measurements verso: inscribed - by the draughtsman, in brown ink, all over each drawing: measurements; in the right drawing: "B" (reference to the drawing on the recto); right of the right drawing: "strie 24"; in the top left drawing: "V" (reference to the drawing immediately below); left of the upper left drawing: "d[e] la finestra / d[i] fora"; in the upper left drawing "V" (reference to the drawing immediately above); right of the middle left drawing: "d[e] la porta"; "T" (reference to the drawing on the recto); in the middle right drawing: "s" (reference to the bottom left drawing); in the middle lower right drawing: "<" (reference to the drawing on the recto); in the middle drawing: "*" (reference to the bottom left drawing); in the lower right drawing: "L" (reference to the bottom left drawing)