Plan, perspectives and a detail of three kinds of siege engines or testudine
Architect/Designer | Vitruvius (c. 84 BC-c. 14 BC) |
Artist/Photographer | Newton, William (1735-1790) |
Subject Date | -99 |
Image Date | 1785 |
View | Exterior |
Style | Roman |
Medium | Drawing |
Library Reference | SC114/1(10) |
Orientation | Portrait |
Colour Info | Colour |
Credit | RIBA Collections |
Subject | Military personnel ; Military architecture ; Castellation |
NOTES: This drawing was made in preparation for publication in Newton's 'The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio', (London, 1771; 2nd edition, 1791), in which Vitruvian principles were applied to conjectural reconstructions of Classical buildings and later constructions. These are studies for figures CXIII, CXIV, CXV, and CXVI (2nd edition).
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