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Pianta del Proffilo dreto a questa carta (‘Plan of the elevation on the back of this sheet [i.e. Fol. 17r/Ashby 28]’); [in graphite] 4

• c.1625/35
  Date range: c.1625/35

Pen and brown ink and pink-brown wash over graphite or black chalk

Seventeenth-Century Hand 2 (Sangallo Copyist 2)

Added to the compilation in the seventeenth century by the second of the two artists, dubbed the Sangallo Copyist 2, employed to make additions to it (Campbell 2004, 2, pp. 597–99), this plan is of a nearly circular tomb on the Via Latina. It is almost identical to one in Berlin dating from the mid- sixteenth century, which has a caption – Pianta del Proffilo dreto a questa carta – that follows almost the same wording as here (pianta d[e]l profilo d[e] la carta inanti a questa), to refer to the elevational drawing on the previous page. Like the Berlin drawing, too, it is accompanied by the plan of an unrelated rectangular tomb on the Via Latina, suggesting a close family relationship between the various drawings. There are still two minor discrepancies between the Coner plan and its Berlin counterpart. The Coner drawing shows the building with just one rather than two buttresses at the rear while the entrance jambs are drawn as curved rather than stepped. These differences could be the result of sloppy copying or of the drawing’s immediate dependence on a prototype that had made the same errors. Another version of the plan (with two rear buttresses) along with a view of the interior is included in a mid- sixteenth-century compilation in Saint Petersburg, but this is more distantly related, lacking the explanatory caption, and showing the two interior niches facing each other directly on the cross axis.

Campbell suggested that the two halves of the plan, which have pen lines of slightly different weight, were drawn at separate times. The number ‘4’ written in graphite probably relates to the campaign in the seventeenth century to add extra images to the compilation.

RELATED IMAGES: [Anon.] Berlin, Kunstbibliothek, Inv. OZ 114, fol. 21

OTHER IMAGES MENTIONED: [Anon.] Saint Petersburg, Hermitage, Codex Destailleur B, fol. 11v (Lanzarini–Martinis 2015, p. 95)

OTHER DRAWINGS IN CODEX CONER OF SAME SUBJECT: Fol. 17r/Ashby 28

Ashby 1904, pp. 27–28
Campbell 2004, 2, pp. 615–16
Census, ID 46789

Drawing

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