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Drawing, Design for a Tabernacle Door to be Executed in Bronze

This is a Drawing. It was created by G B C. It is dated ca. 1725 and we acquired it in 1901. Its medium is pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, graphite on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase through gift of various donors.

Its dimensions are

27.1 x 20.2 cm (10 11/16 x 7 15/16 in.)

It is inscribed

At lower right: "No 2" and the monogram as in -1143: GBC. Above in another handwriting, probably of the man making the comission: G. Ciacchetti; that may mean his signature or the name of the artist.

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Tabernacle Door to be Executed in Bronze; G B C; Italy; pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, graphite on paper; 27.1 x 20.2 cm (10 11/16 x 7 15/16 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors; 1901-39-2526

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