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Drawing, Design for a Lunette, Church of Corpus Domini, Bologna, Italy, Summer
This is a Drawing. It was designed by Marc Antonio Franceschini. It is dated 1689–96 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and ink, brush and gray-brown 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
26.3 × 19.1 cm (10 3/8 × 7 1/2 in.)
It has the following markings
Watermark: two-pointed anchor in circle; on top a six-pointed star, below the letter "R"
It is signed
Signed in pen and ink, lower left: Di me Marco Anto Franceschini
It is inscribed
Inscribed in pen and ink, upper right: 209
Cite this object as
Drawing, Design for a Lunette, Church of Corpus Domini, Bologna, Italy, Summer; Designed by Marc Antonio Franceschini (Italian, 1648 – 1729); Italy; pen and ink, brush and gray-brown watercolor, graphite on paper; 26.3 × 19.1 cm (10 3/8 × 7 1/2 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-6428
