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1938

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Drawing, Project for a Painted Oblong Ceiling

This is a Drawing. It was architect: Flaminio Innocenzi Minozzi. It is dated 1800–1815 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and brown ink, brush and green, gray, and brown wash on paper, lined with white heavy textured paper with lithographed frame and geometric lines in pen and black ink over graphite. 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

24 x 19.6 cm (9 7/16 x 7 11/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed on recto of the support: Enrico Tozzani [?Sozzani]

Cite this object as

Drawing, Project for a Painted Oblong Ceiling; Architect: Flaminio Innocenzi Minozzi (Italian, 1735 – 1817); Italy; pen and brown ink, brush and green, gray, and brown wash on paper, lined with white heavy textured paper with lithographed frame and geometric lines in pen and black ink over graphite; 24 x 19.6 cm (9 7/16 x 7 11/16 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-6614

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