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Drawing, Recto: Design for a Scaffold; Verso: Design for an Altar

This is a Drawing. It was architect: Unknown. It is dated 1775–1800 and we acquired it in 1938. 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.

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Drawing, Recto: Design for a Scaffold; Verso: Design for an Altar; Architect: Unknown (Italian); Italy; Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-4493

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