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Drawing, Stage Setting, People Rushing into Crypt
This is a Drawing. It is dated ca. 1775 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and bistre ink, brush and green wash on green 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: 20.2 × 31.3 cm (7 15/16 × 12 5/16 in.)
It is inscribed
Inscribed, beneath recto drawing: Libro del Anfiteatro [di] Bologna Anno 1775 . . . (Book of amphitheater of Bologna); verso: Ospidale delli incurabili da me ombras dello cara [?] (Hospital for incurables gives me shades(?) of the (?).)
Cite this object as
Drawing, Stage Setting, People Rushing into Crypt; Italy; pen and bistre ink, brush and green wash on green paper; H x W: 20.2 × 31.3 cm (7 15/16 × 12 5/16 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-441