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Drawing, Altar
This is a Drawing. It was created by Antonio Foschini. It is dated ca. 1770 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and brown ink, watercolor, black chalk, grahite support: off-white laid 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
50.2 x 35.4 cm (19 3/4 x 13 15/16 in.) Mat: 55.9 x 40.6 cm (22 x 16 in.)
It has the following markings
Marks: Shield with "PS" above crown
It is inscribed
Signed in pen and brown ink at lower right: A. Foschini; at lower margin [a scale] Piedi Ferraresi
Cite this object as
Drawing, Altar; Antonio Foschini (1741 – 1813); Italy; pen and brown ink, watercolor, black chalk, grahite support: off-white laid paper; 50.2 x 35.4 cm (19 3/4 x 13 15/16 in.) Mat: 55.9 x 40.6 cm (22 x 16 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-3542
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Cooper-Hewitt Collections: A Design Resource.
