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Folio 83 verso (Ashby 139): Five capitals
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Reference number
SM volume 115/139
Purpose
Folio 83 verso (Ashby 139): Five capitals
Inscribed
[Drawing] 21 [early seventeenth-century hand]
[Mount] 139 [x2]
Medium and dimensions
[Drawing] (Drawing media as below) On laid paper (232x164mm), rounded corners at right, inlaid (back to front with respect to original foliation)
[Mount] Frame lines, in pen and dark brown ink, 10mm apart; window (223x158mm)
Watermark
See recto
Level
Group
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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Contents of Folio 83 verso (Ashby 139): Five capitals
- Drawing 1 (top left): Unidentified Corinthian capital with an urn and sphinxes
- Drawing 2 (top centre): Corinthian capital with garlands from the Lateran Baptistry
- Drawing 3 (upper right): Composite capital with five faces once in Old St Peter’s
- Drawing 4 (bottom right): Composite capital with five faces once in Old St Peter’s
- Drawing 5 (bottom left): Unidentified Corinthian capital with flowering tendrils
- Drawing 6 (bottom centre): Unidentified Corinthian capital with horned animal heads and mask