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

Two sections for a magazine at the Fortress of Ferrrara

ca. 1630-1640

• design development drawing
• record drawing

Pen and grey ink with pink and green watercolour over black chalk underdrawing

sheet: 27.6 x 19.8 cm

DR1981:0017:067 R

• finished drawing

• sections (orthographic drawings)

- This drawing is was formerly bound into an album as indicated by the number indicating pagination and the discolouration at the l.r. corner where the page was turned. A partial watermark at the c.l. appears to be the other half of the watermark on DR1981:0017:066.

inscribed and signed - by the draughtsman, in pen and brown ink, l.r.: "GA:C Zani" inscribed - by the draughtsman, in pen and brown ink, u.l. to u.r.: "Profilo de Magazini della Fortezza di Ferrara / prima che fossaro riformati, e ridotti / sicura dalle bombe, come si e dismostrato. / Le volte sono di due Teste."; c.: "Strade in Fortezza / Sotteran / ei"; and throughout: with inscriptions indicating measurements and parts inscribed - by a contemporary hand, in pen and brown ink, l.l.: "4[s]"

• architecture
• militaire

• arches
• magazine (military building)