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Drawing, Stage Design: Walled Courtyard with View of a Garden

This is a Drawing. It was after Andrea Pozzo. It is dated 1699–1700 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and brown, red ink, watercolor on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.


Related to Andea Pozzo’s Perspective Pictorum et Architectorum, Rome, 1693, plates 45 and 46.

It is credited Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.

Its dimensions are

H x W: 52 × 35 cm (20 1/2 × 13 3/4 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite by a later hand, bottom right: PV

Cite this object as

Drawing, Stage Design: Walled Courtyard with View of a Garden; After Andrea Pozzo (Italian, 1642–1709); Italy; pen and brown, red ink, watercolor on paper; H x W: 52 × 35 cm (20 1/2 × 13 3/4 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-4

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