Yale Center for British Art

Creator:: Giovanni Battista Borra, 1713–1770, Italian
Title:: Plan of the Second Theater of Laodicea and Details of a Composite Order
Date:: ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash with black and brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 1/8 x 14 13/16 inches (53.6 x 37.7 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:: Inscribed in graphite, upper left: "LVI"; in brown ink, upper left: "LXV."; within image: labels A-F; in black ink, measurements and scale; in graphite, lower center: "Plan [...] of Cornice of the Composite order | of the 2d Theatre at Laodicea"
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:: Public Domain
Accession Number:: B1977.14.989
Classification:: Drawing & Watercolors-Architectural
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:: scale (rule) | moldings | architectural subject | Lydian | theater | capitals | entablatures | amphitheater | Composite order | friezes
Associated Places:: Denizli Ili | Turkey | Ege kiyilari | Laodicea | Asia
Currently On View:: Not on view
Publications:: Daniel R. McReynolds, Palladio's legacy, architectural polemics in eighteenth-century Venice , no. 5, Marsilio, Venezia, 2011, p. 87, fig. 46, NJ18.P18 M27 2011 (LC) (HAAS)
Link:: https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:27067