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Drawing, Design for a Basin

This is a Drawing. It was school of Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini. It is dated 17th-19th century and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash on cream laid paper on secondary paper support. 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.

It is inscribed

Inscribed in pen and ink, lower left: V. II. J3. B.S.O; in graphite, on lower mat: Bernini School

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Basin; School of Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini (1598 – 1680); Italy; pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash on cream laid paper on secondary paper support; Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-523

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