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Drawing, Design for a Candelabrum and a Crucifix, 1803

This is a Drawing. It is dated 1803 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and ink, brush and watercolor, graphite on paper; verso: pen and ink. 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

29.2 × 19.6 cm (11 1/2 × 7 11/16 in.)

It has the following markings

Watermark: crowned coat of arms over PM, charges, stars and stripes

It is inscribed

Inscribed in pen and ink, lower left: Mezzo Palmo di Papatto Romano; in pen and ink, lower right: 1803

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Candelabrum and a Crucifix, 1803; Italy; pen and ink, brush and watercolor, graphite on paper; verso: pen and ink; 29.2 × 19.6 cm (11 1/2 × 7 11/16 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-670

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