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Drawing, Stage Design: Town Archit

This is a Drawing. It was studio of Bibiena Family. It is dated ca. 1740 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and brown ink, gray wash, ruled border in pen and brown support: white laid paper, laid down. 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

26.3 x 36.7 cm (10 3/8 x 14 7/16 in.) Mat: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.)

It is inscribed

in graphite at upper right: 8

Cite this object as

Drawing, Stage Design: Town Archit; Studio of Bibiena Family; Italy; pen and brown ink, gray wash, ruled border in pen and brown support: white laid paper, laid down; 26.3 x 36.7 cm (10 3/8 x 14 7/16 in.) Mat: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-72

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