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

Bird's-eye view of the area around the Valle di Comacchio; verso of sheet laid down on right: Sketch of a monument with a sculpture in a niche flanked by columns; verso of leaf: Floral design for the top of a crosier

circa 1630-1640

This object is composed of drawings mounted on the recto and verso of a leaf that has been removed from an album. On the recto is a Bird's-eye view of the area around the Valle di Comacchio. This bird’s-eye view is composed of two sheets that have been laid side-by-side on the page, with some of the drawing continuing onto the page itself. The sheet laid down on the right has a sketch of a monument on its verso. A design for the top of a crosier is mounted on the verso of the leaf.

• design development drawing
• record drawing

Pen and brown ink with wash over traces of black chalk underdrawing; verso of sheet laid down on right: graphite with some pen and black ink; verso of leaf: pen and dark brown ink with wash over black chalk underdrawing

secondary support: 27.6 x 20.3 cm sheet laid down on left: 19.3 x 10.9 cm sheet laid down on right: 18.9 x 8.8 cm sheet laid down on verso of secondary support: 25.5 x 18.3 cm

DR1981:0017:076 R/V

• line drawing
• finished drawing
• sketch

• pictorial drawing
• elevations (drawings)
• sketch elevations (drawings)

• bird's-eye view

- Drawing is in two parts. The smaller part was formerly numbered DR1981:0017:075 R/V. Traces of old glue at right where DR1981:0017:075 V was formerly laid down, completing the drawing. - This drawing is laid down on a secondary support which was formerly bound into an album as indicated by the guard, the number indicating pagination, and the discolouration at the lower right corner where the page was turned. Sheets have been laid down on the left and right sides of the secondary support, with the drawing extending throughout the primary supports and secondary support above. - An offset image of the inscription from the verso of the sheet laid down on the right appears on the secondary support. - Verso: This drawing is laid down on a secondary support which was formerly bound into an album as indicated by the guard and the letters indicating pagination.

inscribed - by the draughtsman, in pen and brown ink, upper centre: "Mare / Scanno / Scanno / Sacca"; centre left: "Bell'Occhio / Strada che fa il Correro di Venetia; Canale di Bell'Occhio"; and lower left: "Valle di Comacchio" numbered - on the secondary support, by a contemporary hand, in pen and brown ink, lower left: "3[i]"; and upper left: "[...]3" inscribed - by a 17th century hand, in pen and brown ink, verso of sheet laid down on right, upper right: "[T]orre vecchia / dell Abbate" [sheet trimmed] inscribed - on the secondary support, by a contemporary hand, in pen and brown ink, verso of leaf, lower right: "ee."

• architecture
• topographique

• sarcophagus
• sculpture
• road
• canal
• sea
• column (architectural element)
• niche
• mill
• crosier