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Drawing, Design for a Monochrome Wall Painting, Church of Corpus Domini, Bologna, Italy, St. Caterina Vigri Receives the Babe from the Virgin

This is a Drawing. It was designed by Marc Antonio Franceschini. It is dated 1687–94 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is blach chalk, pen and ink, brush and gray-brown watercolor 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

20.5 × 28 cm (8 1/16 × 11 in.)

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Drawing, Design for a Monochrome Wall Painting, Church of Corpus Domini, Bologna, Italy, St. Caterina Vigri Receives the Babe from the Virgin; Designed by Marc Antonio Franceschini (Italian, 1648 – 1729); Italy; blach chalk, pen and ink, brush and gray-brown watercolor on paper; 20.5 × 28 cm (8 1/16 × 11 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-6431

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