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Drawing, Project for a Fountain

This is a Drawing. It is dated 1725–1800 and we acquired it in 1901. Its medium is pen and brown ink on off-white laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Various Donors. It is credited Museum purchase through gift of various donors.

Its dimensions are

H x W: 27 × 18.2 cm (10 5/8 × 7 3/16 in.)

It is signed

Written at bottom, right: Joseph Ghelli fecit

It is inscribed

Written with ink in a later hand, upper left corner: N 2621

Cite this object as

Drawing, Project for a Fountain; Italy; pen and brown ink on off-white laid paper; H x W: 27 × 18.2 cm (10 5/8 × 7 3/16 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors; 1901-39-367

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