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Drawing, Costume Design: A Captain for a Ballet, ca. 1720

This is a Drawing. It is dated ca. 1720 and we acquired it in 1942. Its medium is pen and brown ink, brush and violet watercolor over black chalk. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

Its dimensions are

H x W: 27.6 × 19.5 cm (10 7/8 × 7 11/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Written above, in ink, contemporaneously: "Sigre Co Carlo Montecucoli" and above it, by another hand: "Uno Spagniello" (?)

Cite this object as

Drawing, Costume Design: A Captain for a Ballet, ca. 1720; Italy; pen and brown ink, brush and violet watercolor over black chalk; H x W: 27.6 × 19.5 cm (10 7/8 × 7 11/16 in.); 1942-3-4

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