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1938

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Drawing, Stage Design: Palace Interior, ca. 1720–40

This is a Drawing. It was attributed to Alessandro Galli Bibiena. It is dated ca. 1720–40 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and brown ink, gray, brown wash support: white 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

20.9 x 25.4 cm (8 1/4 x 10 in.) Mat: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.)

It is inscribed

inscribed in graphite at right: F Bibbiena ant[---]ico

Cite this object as

Drawing, Stage Design: Palace Interior, ca. 1720–40; Attributed to Alessandro Galli Bibiena (1686 – 1748); Italy; pen and brown ink, gray, brown wash support: white laid paper; 20.9 x 25.4 cm (8 1/4 x 10 in.) Mat: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-55

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