• Luca Danese (designer)
• Luca Danese (draughtsman)

Bird's-eye view of the fortified city of Ferrara, with a cardinal's coat of arms

ca. 1630-1640

• finished drawing

Engraving

plate mark: 18.0 x 13.2 cm secondary support: 28.3 x 20.1 cm sheet: 23.3 x 16.6 cm

DR1981:0017:048 V

• line drawing

• pictorial drawing
• elevation (drawing)

• bird's-eye view

- This print 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.l. corner where the page was turned.

inscribed - in the plate, on the image, l.l.: "Po de Ferrara"; and l.r.: "Po['] di Volana / Po d'Argenta" inscribed and signed - by the draughtsman, in pen and black ink, on the print within the plate mark, c.r.: "FER:A"; l.l.: "Luca Danese Delineo"; and l.r.: "S.Giorg:i[o]" inscribed - by a contemporary hand, in pen and brown ink, on the secondary support, l.r.: "n:"

• city
• towers (building divisions)
• fortifications
• churches
• escutcheon (coat of arms)