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Drawing, Stage Design, Loggia with Fountain in an Oriental Palace

This is a Drawing. It was designed by Romolo Achille Liverani and after Alessandro Sanquirico. It is dated 1828 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and sepia ink, brush and wash on 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: 20.8 × 28 cm (8 3/16 in. × 11 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed, verso: Luogo sotteraneo destinato alle tombe dei Re di Persia. Ballo Gengis Kan. (Subterranean burying place of the Kings of Persia from the Ballet Genghis Khan.)

Cite this object as

Drawing, Stage Design, Loggia with Fountain in an Oriental Palace; Designed by Romolo Achille Liverani (Italian, 1809 - 1872); After Alessandro Sanquirico (Italian, 1777 - 1849); Italy; pen and sepia ink, brush and wash on paper; H x W: 20.8 × 28 cm (8 3/16 in. × 11 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-263

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