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Pianta del Tempietto, che si Vede (‘Plan of the little temple shown here [i.e. on Fol. 18r/Ashby 30]’); [in graphite] 5

• 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)

A seventeenth-century addition to the compilation, this plan of a Via Latina tomb is dependent, like the drawing above it (see Drawing 1), on a lost original, which was also copied in a mid- sixteenth-century drawing now in Berlin that has a very similar caption. Both inscriptions refer to a depiction of the interior, which in the case of the Codex Coner is on the next page (Fol. 18r/Ashby 30). As Campbell noted, the two halves of the plan appear to have been executed at different times, with only the left half of the central niche’s baseline being completed. A rectangular plan included in a mid- sixteenth-century album in Saint Petersburg may be of the same edifice, even despite numerous differences of detail, such as the lack of an entrance portal and a rear wall that has pilasters and a much wider central niche.

The number ‘5’ written in graphite relates to the seventeenth-century campaign to include additional drawings in the compilation.

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

OTHER IMAGES MENTIONED: [Anon.] Saint Petersburg, Hermitage, Codex Destailleur B, fol. 5r (and 4r) (Lanzanrini–Martinis 2015, pp. 90–91 and 89–90)

OTHER DRAWINGS IN CODEX CONER OF SAME SUBJECT: Fol. 18r/Ashby 30

Ashby 1904, pp. 27–28
Ashby 1913, p. 200
Campbell 2004, 2, pp. 615–16
Census, ID 46790

Drawing

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