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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 ink, brush and gray 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
34 × 43.6 cm (13 3/8 × 17 3/16 in.)
It has the following markings
Watermark: VAN DER LEY and similar to Churchill 321
It is signed
Signed in pen and ink, bottom right: Luigi Righetti fecit 1800
It is inscribed
Inscribed in pen and ink, in line with scale, bottom: Palmi Romani
Cite this object as
Drawing, Design for a Chimneypiece; Designed by Luigi Righetti (Italian, 1780 - 1819); Italy; pen and ink, brush and gray watercolor on paper; 34 × 43.6 cm (13 3/8 × 17 3/16 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-644
