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Drawing, Elevation of a Country Villa

This is a Drawing. It was architect: Unknown. It is dated ca. 1820 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and black ink, brush and rose, brown and blue watercolor, black wash, with black chalk indications 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

38 x 51.3 cm (14 15/16 x 20 3/16 in.)

It has the following markings

watercolor: Adriaan Rogge and the letters A R and Strasburg bend and lily

It is inscribed

Indication of scale in pen and black ink at lower margin: Scala di Palmi Romi

Cite this object as

Drawing, Elevation of a Country Villa; Architect: Unknown (Italian); Italy; pen and black ink, brush and rose, brown and blue watercolor, black wash, with black chalk indications on paper; 38 x 51.3 cm (14 15/16 x 20 3/16 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-7167

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