Giacomo Leoni - Project for Triumphal Arch George I - 1719.

Giacomo Leoni - (c. 1686 - 1746).

Project for Triumphal Arch for George I - 1725.

 

 

This engraving dated 1725.

 

 

 

From Some Designs for Buildings both Publick and Private be James Leoni, architect.

From: The architecture of Leon Battista Alberti, in ten books : Of painting in three books and Of statuary, one book / translated into Italian by Cosimo Bartoli, and now first into English and divided into three volumes, by James Leoni.

 

London : Printed by Thomas Edlin, 1726.

Engraved by - Bernard Picart (11 June 1673 – 8 May 1733).

see - http://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3558640?image_id=1250060

 

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

 

Given the excellent quality of this download I felt that the opportunity should not be missed for illustrating architectural sculpture of the first quarter of the 18th Century.