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Drawing, Design for a Candlestick

This is a Drawing. It was designed by Italian. It is dated ca. 1780 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and brown ink, brush and wash, gray wash, yellow watercolor, 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

34.6 x 23.9 cm (13 5/8 x 9 7/16 in. )

It has the following markings

Cooper-Union stamp on verso, lower center [Lugt 457d]

It is inscribed

Below drawing in brown ink: "Palmo Romano". Below inscription: ruled scale indicating dimensions

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Candlestick; Designed by Italian (Italian, possibly Roman); Italy; pen and brown ink, brush and wash, gray wash, yellow watercolor, graphite on cream laid paper; 34.6 x 23.9 cm (13 5/8 x 9 7/16 in. ); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-3207

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