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Drawing, Design for a Classical Temple with a Tempietto and Semicircular Aedicule
This is a Drawing. It was architect: Unknown. It is dated ca. 1780 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and brush and black ink, gray wash, blue and brown watercolor, black chalk on heavy cream laid paper, double ruled border in pen and brush and black 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
51.4 x 36.7 cm (20 1/4 x 14 7/16 in. )
It has the following markings
Cooper Union stamp in black, center verso: Lugt 457d
It is inscribed
Inscribed in pen and black ink, lower edge center: Tempio Antico [erased]; lower edge, left: Scala di [followed by a scale], lower edge right: Palmi Romi.
Cite this object as
Drawing, Design for a Classical Temple with a Tempietto and Semicircular Aedicule; Architect: Unknown (Italian); Italy; pen and brush and black ink, gray wash, blue and brown watercolor, black chalk on heavy cream laid paper, double ruled border in pen and brush and black ink; 51.4 x 36.7 cm (20 1/4 x 14 7/16 in. ); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-7158
