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Drawing, Design for a crest with a coat of arms

This is a Drawing. It was created by Louis Tullius Joachim Visconti. It is dated 1829 and we acquired it in 1931. Its medium is pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, traces of graphite on cream laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Sarah Cooper Hewitt and Eleanor Garnier Hewitt. It is credited Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.

Its dimensions are

23.2 × 37.2 cm (9 1/8 × 14 5/8 in.)

It has the following markings

Reverse: the J. Peoli mark

It is inscribed

Inscription on escutcheon frame (counter clockwise from lower right): "RIMMRISO.MV.MOITSII.SANNO.MIIIXO.SVRITIS.ORMVMVIX. ANNO.XXX" Signed at lower right in ink: "T (?) Visconti / architecte / 14 7^e 1829."

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a crest with a coat of arms; Louis Tullius Joachim Visconti (Italian, active in France, 1791 - 1853); pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, traces of graphite on cream laid paper; 23.2 × 37.2 cm (9 1/8 × 14 5/8 in.); Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt; 1931-64-138

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