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1938

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Drawing, Design for a Tripod Candlestick Base

This is a Drawing. It was attributed to Jacopo Ligozzi and created by Unknown. It is dated 1520–43 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash over traves of black chalk, squared in black chalk on off-white squared paper, inlaid in cream 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

23 × 21 cm (9 1/16 × 8 1/4 in.)

It is inscribed

Recto, inscribed in graphite, upper left: Ligozzi Verso, in pen and brown ink: Di mano del Ligozzi

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Tripod Candlestick Base; Unknown; Attributed to Jacopo Ligozzi (1547 – 1627); Italy; pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash over traves of black chalk, squared in black chalk on off-white squared paper, inlaid in cream paper; 23 × 21 cm (9 1/16 × 8 1/4 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-8111

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