VINCENZO LEONARDI (1590-C. 1648)
A Roman steelyard balance (statera)
c.1630-49RCIN 911186
This sheet and no. 129 (below) formed part of the ‘paper museum’ of Cassiano dal Pozzo, a collection of thousands of drawings of antiquities, architecture and natural history. The drawing depicts, at actual size and in several views, a bronze statera or steelyard balance for weighing goods, with three alternative fulcra and corresponding scales, and a bust of Minerva as a counterweight.