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Drawing, Woman with a Baby Praying Before the Cross Marking the Place Where Her Husband was Killed

This is a Drawing. It was created by Bartolomeo Pinelli. It is dated 1807–08 and we acquired it in 1931. Its medium is pen and gray ink with watercolor and black chalk on off-white wove paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Sarah Cooper Hewitt and Eleanor Garnier Hewitt. It is credited Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.

Its dimensions are

H x W: 20.5 × 27.9 cm (8 1/16 in. × 11 in.)

It is inscribed

Written with pencil on the boulder: "Pinelli abita a piazza / di Spagna No 90 vicino / Il Caffe degl / Inglesi / Roma."

Cite this object as

Drawing, Woman with a Baby Praying Before the Cross Marking the Place Where Her Husband was Killed; Bartolomeo Pinelli (Roman, 1781 - 1835); Italy; pen and gray ink with watercolor and black chalk on off-white wove paper; H x W: 20.5 × 27.9 cm (8 1/16 in. × 11 in.); Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt; 1931-73-303

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