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Drawing, Design for Altar at Santo Spirito dei Napolitani (Holy Spirit of the Neapolitans), Rome, Italy
This is a Drawing. It was probably Carlo Fontana. It is dated 1690–1702 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and brown ink, brush and grey wash, graphite on cream laid paper, laid down. 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
34.3 × 22.2 cm (13 1/2 × 8 3/4 in.) Sheet: 41.9 × 27 cm (16 1/2 × 10 5/8 in.)
It is inscribed
Inscribed in pen and brown ink, lower center: Car[lo](?) Fontana Altare allo Spirito Sancto dei(?) Napolitani(?) (Car[lo] Fontana Altar at the Holy Spirit of the Neapolitans); upper right corner: 6; in black ink, upper right corner: 86; verso: Chiesa di Santa Anna (St. Anne's Church)
Cite this object as
Drawing, Design for Altar at Santo Spirito dei Napolitani (Holy Spirit of the Neapolitans), Rome, Italy; Probably Carlo Fontana (Italian, 1634 - 1714); Italy; pen and brown ink, brush and grey wash, graphite on cream laid paper, laid down; 34.3 × 22.2 cm (13 1/2 × 8 3/4 in.) Sheet: 41.9 × 27 cm (16 1/2 × 10 5/8 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-5157
