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Drawing, Details of Decorative Architecture

This is a Drawing. It is dated 1600–1625 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, 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

27 × 21.4 cm (10 5/8 × 8 7/16 in.)

It has the following markings

Watermark (part): Bottom of anchor in ovoid

Cite this object as

Drawing, Details of Decorative Architecture; Italy; pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, graphite on cream laid paper; 27 × 21.4 cm (10 5/8 × 8 7/16 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-2178

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