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Drawing, The Rear View of a Mansion

This is a Drawing. It was architect: Unknown. It is dated 1550-1600 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and ink, brush and watercolor, graphite 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: 38.7 × 49.2 cm (15 1/4 × 19 3/8 in.)

It is inscribed

Measurements are written in ink in the balustrade below the lower windows and "P(iedi)" in the pedestal of one of the embedded columns which separate the lower windows and support the entablature.

Cite this object as

Drawing, The Rear View of a Mansion; Architect: Unknown (Italian); Italy; pen and ink, brush and watercolor, graphite on paper; H x W: 38.7 × 49.2 cm (15 1/4 × 19 3/8 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-3907

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