Drawing techniques

SOURCE: Sebastiano Serlio. Il Secondo libro d'architettura (Di Architettura, book II) (Venice, 1551), fo. 14 recto NOTES: This 1551 publication formed the first collected edition of all five of Serlio's books on architecture, which had previously appeared as first editions between 1537 and 1547.

SOURCE: Sebastiano Serlio. Il Secondo libro d'architettura (Di Architettura, book II) (Venice, 1551), fo. 15 recto NOTES: This 1551 publication formed the first collected edition of all five of Serlio's books on architecture, which had previously appeared as first editions between 1537 and 1547.

NOTES: This drawing is numbered XVII/20 verso in the Burlington-Devonshire Collection. Here can be seen a stage in the drawing process, probably for the design on the recto of this sheet.

NOTES: The recto of this sheet (RIBA125535) is a study for a plate in Vicenzo Scamozzi's L'idea della architettura universale (Venice, 1615), Parte Seconda, Libro Sesto, Cap.II, p.6. This drawing is numbered XIII/16 in the Burlington-Devonshire Collection.

NOTES: This shows a method of copying a drawing by covering the verso with (charcoal?) which enables the copyist to lay this drawing on a clean sheet and by drawing over the lines on the recto an outline copy of the plan can be transferred to the sheet below. By enlarging the image above some of the impressed lines can be seen. (See RIBA125296 for recto) This sheet is numbered III/1 in the Burlington-Devonshire Collection.

NOTES: Tis drawing is numbered XVII/8 verso in the Burlington-Devonshire Collection.