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Drawing, Design for an Easter Sepulchre

This is a Drawing. It was created by Vinzenz Fischer. It is dated ca. 1757 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and ink, brush and grey watercolor on light brown 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

48.4 × 31.3 cm (19 1/16 × 12 5/16 in.)

It has the following markings

Watermark: Strasburg lily with 4WP below

It is inscribed

Inscribed in lower right corner: Vincenz Fischer / 22 Novemb: 1757 / in 8 giorni / Waldkirchen

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for an Easter Sepulchre; Vinzenz Fischer (German, 1729 - 1810); pen and ink, brush and grey watercolor on light brown paper.; 48.4 × 31.3 cm (19 1/16 × 12 5/16 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-3575

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