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Drawing, Design for an Earring

This is a Drawing. It was designed by Giovanni Sebastiano Meyandi. It is dated ca. 1770 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and black ink, brush and gray watercolor 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

8.2 × 6.8 cm (3 1/4 × 2 11/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in pen and ink, center right: 12 / 1

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for an Earring; Designed by Giovanni Sebastiano Meyandi (Italian, active 1762 - 1794); Italy; pen and black ink, brush and gray watercolor on paper; 8.2 × 6.8 cm (3 1/4 × 2 11/16 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-898

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