Incendiary Bombs, Figure Studies and Stage-Cloth Designs
A recipe for fire-balls beside draped figures, chequered festival cloths and a payment note
The sheet is dominated by two incendiary balls drawn amid flames, with a detailed note on how they are built and fired. Around them are figure studies, a robed figure standing at the left and a nude child seated at the upper right, together with a small face. At the left, two grids set out white and sky-blue chequered cloths for a festival 'apparatus', and a memorandum at the top records a payment received.
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Two incendiary balls (fire-bombs)
When thrown, the ball goes out in flight and, on landing, reeds bound at the head with lit linen drive inward and set fire to the powder surrounding loose tow smeared with turpentine. The rest is a wrapping of hemp smeared with turpentine, linseed oil and pitch, kept loose so the flames get air, without which nothing would be achieved.
Draped standing figure, seated child and a face
A robed figure stands at the left and a nude child sits at the upper right, drawn above the flames. A small face is also sketched, of which the bundle records the chin, mouth and nose.
Chequered cloths for a festival 'sky'
Two grids at the left set out white and sky-blue cloths woven in a chequerboard. One square is divided into thirty small squares; the other, divided by broken lines and lettered a b c d e f g h i K l, shows cloths stretched at a b c d e f g i K to make a 'sky' (canopy) for a stage apparatus.
Payment received from Marchesino
A memorandum at the top of the sheet records that on 28 April he received 103 lire and 12 soldi from Marchesino.