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Drawing, Stage Design, Fantasy of Rome with the Castel Sant 'Angelo, the Ponte Elio and the Centaurs Aristens and Pappias
This is a Drawing. It is dated ca. 1740 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and brown ink, brush and brown and gray watercolor on white 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
H x W: 32 × 48.2 cm (12 5/8 in. × 19 in.) H x W (mat): 55.9 × 71.1 cm (22 × 28 in.)
It is inscribed
Inscribed in graphite, verso: P 19 / upper
Cite this object as
Drawing, Stage Design, Fantasy of Rome with the Castel Sant 'Angelo, the Ponte Elio and the Centaurs Aristens and Pappias; Italy; pen and brown ink, brush and brown and gray watercolor on white laid paper; H x W: 32 × 48.2 cm (12 5/8 in. × 19 in.) H x W (mat): 55.9 × 71.1 cm (22 × 28 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-168
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibitions Excavating Design: 18th-century Drawings and Prints from the Permanent Collection and The Cooper-Hewitt Collections: A Design Resource.