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1938

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2025

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Drawing, Competition Design for La Fenice, Venice: Longitudinal Section, 1788

This is a Drawing. It was architect: D. Cerato and co-designed by D. Danieletti. It is dated 1788 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, watercolor, graphite on cream laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.

Its dimensions are

34 x 56.5 cm (13 3/8 x 22 1/4 in. )

It is inscribed

In pen and black ink on rose colored lower margin, center: "SPACCATO P IL LUNGO."; lower right corner: "T.^VI"

Cite this object as

Drawing, Competition Design for La Fenice, Venice: Longitudinal Section, 1788; Architect: D. Cerato (Italian); Co-Designer: D. Danieletti (Italian); Italy; pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, watercolor, graphite on cream laid paper; 34 x 56.5 cm (13 3/8 x 22 1/4 in. ); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-119

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