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Topographical drawing

Drawing
1847 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

View (on 4 sheets) of the city. View looking towards the Ponte del Piovan on which there are figures, seen from the centre of canal.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleTopographical drawing
Materials and techniques
Pencil
Physical description
View (on 4 sheets) of the city. View looking towards the Ponte del Piovan on which there are figures, seen from the centre of canal.
Dimensions
  • Height: 259mm
  • Width: 177mm
Marks and inscriptions
Inscribed twice in pen and ink 'Ponte de Piovan detto Dei Volti Venice'; in ink, in another hand on the original mount '92'. Signed and dated in monogram 'AWP / 1847'.
Object history
This sketch has its original mount and must once have formed a page in one of Pugin's bound sketchbooks,
Place depicted
Associated objects
Bibliographic reference
Alexandra Wedgwood, A.W.N. Pugin and the Pugin Family , London; V&A, 1985, p. 294.
Collection
Accession number
E.76-1970

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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