The Port Gate of Zadar

Cassas employed a technique of initial sepia under-drawings on-site, followed by watercolour and ink detailing in the studio.

The watercolour depicts the Port Gate of Zadar, also called the St. Chrysogorus Gate, focusing on the 16th-century section of the surviving ramparts rather than the entire structure. Created as part of a commissioned series of views of the Dalmatian and Istrian coast, the drawing was later engraved and published in *Voyage pittoresque et historique de l’Istrie et de la Dalmatie* (1802). Cassas employed a technique of initial sepia under-drawings on-site, followed by watercolour and ink detailing in the studio. The work is one of 61 views in the publication that were engraved after his watercolours.