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Drawing, Stage Design: Stairway Leading to an Obelisk, a Triumphal Arch, and an Arcade

This is a Drawing. It was after Filippo Juvarra. It is dated ca. 1720 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and brown ink, brush and gray, pale lavender wash on 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

31.5 × 43 cm (12 3/8 × 16 15/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in pen and brown ink, lower left: di Don Felippo Giovara; on obelisk: CLEMENS / XI ALBANUS / URBINAS / PON.MAX.; on triumphal arch: CLEMENS XI / S.P.O.P.

Cite this object as

Drawing, Stage Design: Stairway Leading to an Obelisk, a Triumphal Arch, and an Arcade; After Filippo Juvarra (Italian, 1678 - 1736); Italy; pen and brown ink, brush and gray, pale lavender wash on laid paper; 31.5 × 43 cm (12 3/8 × 16 15/16 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-166

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