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18 [in graphite]

• 1625/35
  Date range: 1625/35

Pen and brown ink and brown wash over graphite

Seventeenth-Century Hand 2 (Sangallo Copyist 2)

The cornice in this seventeenth-century addition to the codex has no caption beneath it. However, a mid- sixteenth-century drawing in Berlin undoubtedly of the same cornice identifies it as then being in Rome’s Della Valle collection (Campbell), which tallies with the caption of the drawing beneath. The Berlin drawing is also the closest equivalent by far to the Coner depiction, even though it shows less of the cornice (three modillions rather than five) and also depicts the beginnings of a frieze beneath, as well as a row of bead and reel just above it that is omitted in the Coner depiction. Other earlier drawings include one in Saint Petersburg from the mid-century (which also shows a modillion on the flank), and an early sixteenth-century sheet by Lorenzo Donati representing the cornice in section-plus-raking view format and in the company of a second cornice from the Della Valle collection, which on the Coner sheet is the one shown beneath.

Like most others in the codex of seventeenth-century date, the drawing is numbered in graphite.

RELATED IMAGES: [Anon.] Berlin, Kunstbibliothek, inv. OZ 114, fol. 14 (Römische Skizzen 1988, pp. 152–56)

OTHER IMAGES MENTIONED: [Lorenzo Donati] Florence, GDSU, 1842 Ar (Bartoli 1914–22, 6, p. 107); [Anon.] Saint Petersburg, Hermitage, Codex Destailleur B, fol. 84r (Lanzarini–Martinis 2015, pp. 140–41)

Ashby 1904, p. 53
Campbell 2004, 2, pp. 632–33
Census, ID 46786

Drawing

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