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Drawing, Design for a Catafalque for the Memorial Service of a Pope, probably Clement XI, 1721

This is a Drawing. It is dated 1721 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and black ink, brush and sepia, 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

35.9 x 25.4 cm (14 1/8 in. x 10 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in black ink, lower center: Scala palmaria

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Catafalque for the Memorial Service of a Pope, probably Clement XI, 1721; Italy; pen and black ink, brush and sepia, gray watercolor on paper; 35.9 x 25.4 cm (14 1/8 in. x 10 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-3615

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