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Drawing, Elevation of a Chapel, with Alternative Suggestions, 1650–1680

This is a Drawing. It is dated 1650–1680 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is black chalk, pen and ink, brush and bistre 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

57.6 × 40.2 cm (22 11/16 × 15 13/16 in.)

It has the following markings

Watermark: indistinct, ovoid, probably with 3-C over something (cf. Briquet, 9722) above a circle

It is inscribed

Inscribed in ink, right: il difvori della / sud [ett]a coperta [potentially unrelated to drawing]; on verso, blotters of accounts upon a mounting paper referring to Papal police forces in the Romagna, 18th Century

Cite this object as

Drawing, Elevation of a Chapel, with Alternative Suggestions, 1650–1680; Italy; black chalk, pen and ink, brush and bistre on paper; 57.6 × 40.2 cm (22 11/16 × 15 13/16 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-8224

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