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Drawing, Three Designs for Candlesticks

This is a Drawing. It is dated 1803 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, watercolor, traces of graphite on off-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

34.3 × 42.1 cm (13 1/2 × 16 9/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in pen and ink, upper left: No 3 / Scudi 300; in pen and ink, upper center: No 4 / Scudi 600 / Tutto dorato sc 800; in pen and ink, upper right: No 5 / Scudi 300 [corrected over 250] / Tutto dorato sc 300; in pen and ink, in line with scale at bottom: Scala . . .3 di Palmi Romani; in pen and ink, bottom right: Anno 1803

Cite this object as

Drawing, Three Designs for Candlesticks; Italy; pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, watercolor, traces of graphite on off-white laid paper; 34.3 × 42.1 cm (13 1/2 × 16 9/16 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-625

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