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Drawing, Design for a Chimneypiece
This is a Drawing. It was designed by Luigi Righetti. It is dated 1800 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and gray ink, brush and watercolor, graphite on 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
35.7 × 47.8 cm (14 1/16 × 18 13/16 in.)
It has the following markings
Watermark: [V]ANDER LEY and Strasburg bend and lily, bending to the left
It is signed
Signed in pen and ink, bottom right: L. Righetti Fecit Anno 1800
It is inscribed
Inscribed in pen and ink, in line with scale at bottom: Palmi Romani
Cite this object as
Drawing, Design for a Chimneypiece; Designed by Luigi Righetti (Italian, 1780 - 1819); Italy; pen and gray ink, brush and watercolor, graphite on paper; 35.7 × 47.8 cm (14 1/16 × 18 13/16 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-639
