Folio 59 recto (Ashby 100): Three friezes

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Italian Renaissance Drawings
- Codex Coner: Architecture and Antiquarianism in early sixteenth-century Rome, c.1513-15 with seventeenth-century additions (100 folios)

Reference number

SM volume 115/100

Purpose

Folio 59 recto (Ashby 100): Three friezes

Inscribed

[Verso] 78 [early seventeenth-century hand] [Mount] 100 [x2]

Medium and dimensions

[Drawing] (Drawing media as below) On laid paper (232x153mm), one rounded corner at bottom left, inlaid (back to front with respect to original foliation, window on verso of mount) [Verso] Blank [Mount] Frame lines, in pen and dark brown ink, 10mm apart [Verso of mount] Window (225x147mm)

Watermark

[Drawing] Fragment of anchor in circle topped with six-pointed star (variant unidentifiable; cut at right) [Mount] Fleur-de-lys in circle topped with crown (variant 3; cut by bottom edge of window)

Level

Scheme

Digitisation of the Codex Coner has been made possible through the generosity of the Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture Known in the Renaissance, Berlin.

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