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Copy of Luigi Trezza's measured drawing, ? 5-7 May 1780
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Reference number
SM 45/2/3
Purpose
Copy of Luigi Trezza's measured drawing, ? 5-7 May 1780
Aspect
Part-elevation
Scale
bar scale, probably Veronese
Inscribed
Palazzo Colloredo in Mantua / di Jiulio (sic) Romano
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil on laid paper (469 x 639)
Hand
Soane
Watermark
VF with 3 six-pointed stars above and Imperial with 3 crescents below
Notes
Unfinished part-elevation of a 13-bay front of which one bay is almost fully drawn-out with rustication, window architraves and an Atlas shown. Soane's 'Italy & Italian language &c' notebook (volume 162, f.156v) has an entry for Mantua which he reached on 8 May 1780: The Palace of - Colleredo by / Giulio Romano - most wretch'd / & unfinish'd - and in fact, by Antonio Maria Viani, and completed in 1604. See general note regarding Sanmicheli and Luigi Trezza under Italy: Verona: Gran Guardia Vecchia.
Literature
P.du Prey, John Soane's architectural education 1753-80, 1977, pp.311-12
Level
Drawing
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