Survey of the Arno Valley at Cascina
A bird's-eye view of the winding river and hatched hills, with the note 'Cascina, here is the view'
A red-chalk topographic view traces a river winding between ranges of hatched hills, drawn as a bird's-eye survey of a stretch of the Arno valley. A note by the site reads 'Cascina, here is the view,' fixing the vantage point of the drawing near that town below Florence. Several further place labels appear faintly across the map but are not transcribed. The sheet is lightly drawn and much of it is faint.
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A bird's-eye survey marked at Cascina
The sheet lays out a length of river valley in plan-and-view, with a note reading 'Cascina, here is the view' to mark the vantage point. Cascina lies on the Arno below Florence. Additional faint labels dot the map but are left untranscribed here.
The winding river and hatched hills
A sinuous watercourse threads between successive hatched slopes that render the rise and fall of the terrain. The drawing captures the shape of the valley itself as much as its plan. It is executed lightly in red chalk across the whole leaf.