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[1] Bologna: theatre: ? Teatro Nuovo Pubblico: copy of measured drawing
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Reference number
SM 45/6/4 recto
Purpose
[1] Bologna: theatre: ? Teatro Nuovo Pubblico: copy of measured drawing
Aspect
Half cross section of roof truss and coved ceiling
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
Teatre de Bologne
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil, hatching, some pricking for transfer, traces of red sealing wax at corners on laid paper (398 x 545)
Hand
Soane
Notes
There is no bar scale and no dimensions are given. A drawing made 1795 or 1796 by C.D.Tatham corresponds structurally with Soane's section (RIBA Drawings Collection SC110/11(2)). Probably the Nuovo Teatro Pubblico (Teatro Comunale) built 1756-63 by Antonio Galli da Bibiena (1700-74).
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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