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Drawing, Design for Spandral Decoration

This is a Drawing. It was attributed to Lazzaro Baldi and Ciro Ferri. It is dated ca. 1825 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is brush and sepia wash, pen and brown ink, graphie, white gouache on paper; verso: pen and brown ink, black chalk 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

18.4 x 33.1 cm (7 1/4 x 13 1/16 in.)

It has the following markings

watermark: lily in double ovoid under V, over F(?).

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for Spandral Decoration; Attributed to Ciro Ferri, Lazzaro Baldi (Italian, ca. 1624 – 1703); Italy; brush and sepia wash, pen and brown ink, graphie, white gouache on paper; verso: pen and brown ink, black chalk on paper ; 18.4 x 33.1 cm (7 1/4 x 13 1/16 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-6449

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