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Drawing, Conquest of Asia, drawing for illustration in "Da Asia de João de Barroş e de Diogo de Conto"

This is a Drawing. It is dated ca. 1777 and we acquired it in 1959. Its medium is pen and ink, brush and wash, and red chalk on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Milton I. D. Einstein. It is credited Gift of Milton Einstein.

Its dimensions are

13.3 × 18.1 cm (5 1/4 × 7 1/8 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in ink, upper right: Barros: in N. Das Cunba pag.: 175.11

Cite this object as

Drawing, Conquest of Asia, drawing for illustration in "Da Asia de João de Barroş e de Diogo de Conto"; Netherlands; pen and ink, brush and wash, and red chalk on paper; 13.3 × 18.1 cm (5 1/4 × 7 1/8 in.); Gift of Milton Einstein; 1959-49-223

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