Battered Fortress Wall with Round Bastion in Perspective
Watercolour study of a steeply sloping rampart, stepped embrasures and a water-filled ditch
A finished wash drawing in pen, ink and blue-and-brown watercolour of a massive fortification wall seen in steep perspective. The battered (outward-sloping) rampart recedes sharply toward the top, its crest broken by a row of stepped embrasures or merlons, while a rounded bastion tower swells in the foreground and a water-filled ditch runs along the foot of the wall at the right. The bundle records the sheet bears no writing.
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Sloping rampart with a round bastion and moat
A defensive wall with a strongly battered outer face rises from a water-filled ditch, its base swelling into a rounded bastion tower in the foreground. The crest is stepped into a succession of embrasures or merlons, the profile designed to deflect fire and command the approach below.
Steep perspective and coloured wash
The wall is thrown into dramatic recession, its top edge and ditch converging steeply toward the upper right. Blue and brown washes model the sloping face and the water, giving the fortification a strongly three-dimensional, pictorial effect.
Stepped crenellations along the crest
Along the top of the rampart runs a regular series of stepped, box-like projections, drawn as a receding row of merlons or gun embrasures. They give the massive earthwork-and-masonry structure a measured, built rhythm.