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Drawing, Dooring Leading to a Stairway Beneath a Grape Arbor

This is a Drawing. It is dated 1809-1811 and we acquired it in 1931. Its medium is graphite, brush and grey and brown watercolor on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

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

Its dimensions are

18.5 × 14.3 cm (7 5/16 × 5 5/8 in.)

It has the following markings

Verso: J. Peoli mark.

It is inscribed

Written in pencil, on the reverse: "Achille le Clerc a son ami Boisselier/Rome 1811/."

Cite this object as

Drawing, Dooring Leading to a Stairway Beneath a Grape Arbor; France; graphite, brush and grey and brown watercolor on paper; 18.5 × 14.3 cm (7 5/16 × 5 5/8 in.); Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt; 1931-64-205

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