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Drawing, Design for a Setting of the Exhibition of the Host

This is a Drawing. It is dated ca. 1700 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is black chalk, brush and gray and black watercolor on laid 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: 52.3 × 40.9 cm (20 9/16 × 16 1/8 in.)

It has the following markings

Watermark: lily in a double ovoid

It is inscribed

Inscribed in pen and ink, below the scale: Palmi 20 Romani; upper left corner: 25; below, at right, horizontally: 38

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Setting of the Exhibition of the Host; Italy; black chalk, brush and gray and black watercolor on laid paper; H x W: 52.3 × 40.9 cm (20 9/16 × 16 1/8 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-477

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