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Drawing, Design for an Oratory (Memorial Chapel)
This is a Drawing. It was follower of Giacomo Quarenghi. It is dated ca. 1820 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, blue, green and yellow watercolor 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
32.6 x 48.3 cm (12 13/16 x 19 in.) matted with -3849 Mat: 91.4 x 71.1 cm (36 x 28 in.)
It is inscribed
Inscribed in pen and black ink, lower center: Secione dell' Ortografia esterna del grande Oratorio Indication of scale in pen and black ink at the lower margin
Cite this object as
Drawing, Design for an Oratory (Memorial Chapel); Follower of Giacomo Quarenghi (Italian, 1744 - 1817); Italy; pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, blue, green and yellow watercolor on paper ; 32.6 x 48.3 cm (12 13/16 x 19 in.) matted with -3849 Mat: 91.4 x 71.1 cm (36 x 28 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-3848
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Cooper-Hewitt Collections: A Design Resource.
