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Drawing, Two Projects for Painted Grotesque Decorations of a Ceiling

This is a Drawing. It is dated ca. 1590 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is charcoal, pen and ink, brush and greyish-brown watercolor 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

H x W: 15.4 × 22.3 cm (6 1/16 × 8 3/4 in.)

Cite this object as

Drawing, Two Projects for Painted Grotesque Decorations of a Ceiling; Italy; charcoal, pen and ink, brush and greyish-brown watercolor on laid paper.; H x W: 15.4 × 22.3 cm (6 1/16 × 8 3/4 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-2616

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