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Drawing, Two Alternatives for an Entrance to an Arsenal

This is a Drawing. It was created by Filippo Juvarra. It is dated 1708 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and brown ink, brush and grey and rose wash over black chalk on two sheets of heavy paper pasted to a third. 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

54 × 41.9 cm (21 1/4 × 16 1/2 in.)

It is signed

Signed in lower left corner, "D. Filippo Juvarra"

It is inscribed

Signed in lower left corner, "D. Filippo Juvarra" The number 62 is inscribed in chalk on the ressaut to the left of the plaque

Cite this object as

Drawing, Two Alternatives for an Entrance to an Arsenal; Filippo Juvarra (Italian, 1678 - 1736); Italy; pen and brown ink, brush and grey and rose wash over black chalk on two sheets of heavy paper pasted to a third; 54 × 41.9 cm (21 1/4 × 16 1/2 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-7299

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