Album 1

Works on this double page

  • Incident light image. Red chalk drawing of a soffit with leafy vines and a central flower, curving concavely to the sides
  • Incident light image. Black chalk drawing of a relief fragment of an eagle with a thunderbolt
  • Incident light image. Heavily trimmed fragment of a candelabra base drawn in black chalk
  • Incident light image. Red chalk drawing of half a soffit with foliage, flowers and wavy vines
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Album 1, Leaf 23

The blank circles in the upper drawing indicate the columns bordered by the relief. The ornament is a soffit that served to decorate the visible underside of an architrave.

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