Amphitheatres

SOURCE: Gabriel Pierre Martin Dumont. Parallele de plans des plus belles salles de spectacles d'Italie et de France (Paris, 1774?)

SOURCE: Fischer von Erlach. Entwurff einer historischen Architectur (Leipzig, 1725), book 2, pl. VI

SOURCE: George Wightwick. Select views of the Roman antiquities (London, 1827), between pl. 14 and 15

NOTES: This watercolour was produced as a result of measurements and drawings executed by Cockerell of the site itself and was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1832.

NOTES: The Palais Gallien originally formed the entrance to a 3rd century amphitheatre in Ancient Roman Burdigala (now Bordeaux). In addition to being a landscape and architectural painter, lithographer and archaeologist, Bouet was also appointed Inspecteur de la Societe Francaise d'Archeologie. This drawing is one of a number of topographical studies and details of French, German, Italian and Swiss medieval architecture executed by him between around 1850 and 1865.

NOTES: This drawing is by an unidentified 18th century Italian architect.

NOTES: This was a project by Goldicutt for a 'National Building to concentrate the Scientific Bodies of the Metropolis and to provide suitable accommodation for the encouragement of Infant Societies' based on the Colosseum in Rome.

NOTES: The cavea of this theatre is one of the largest ever built by the ancient Greeks. It has 67 rows divided into nine sections with eight aisles.