Album 1
arrow left swipe to the left Visible reflectance photograph Verso of the seventeenth sheet, Album 1 activate zoom zoom tool
Leaf 17 verso activate zoom zoom tool
Visible reflectance photograph Soffitt, two reliefs, capital depicting boys, tabula ansata activate zoom zoom tool arrow right swipe to the right
activate zoom zoom tool Leaf 18

Works on this double page

  • Visible reflectance photograph Counterproof of the drawing of a Square soffitt with leaves encircling a central flower, from the Temple of Vespasian in the Roman Forum
  • Visible reflectance photograph Black chalk drawing of relief with fruit garland between two candelabra, ribbon decoration and ritual object motifs, from the Pantheon
  • Visible reflectance photograph Red chalk drawing of a figurative capital depicting five boys carrying implements for ritual slaughter
  • Visible reflectance photograph Red chalk drawing of a relief with central mask, leaf or fruit garland and rams heads
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Album 1, Leaf 18

The drawing pasted in the bottom right-hand corner is one of only a few in the two albums to have been drawn in iron-gall ink. This kind of ink consists of a tanning agent (oak galls or “oak apples”) and iron sulphate (vitriol) mixed with binder (gum arabic) and wine or water. Unlike the papers marked with chalk, this drawing medium has transferred very visibly to the verso of leaf 17, which, in the album’s closed state, lay pressed against it for many years.

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