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Drawing, Design for a Painted Ceiling
This is a Drawing. It is dated ca. 1590 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk on 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
H x W: 21 × 33 cm (8 1/4 in. × 13 in.)
It has the following markings
Marks: Two crossed arrows, similiar to Heawood 33
It is inscribed
Inscribed in pen and brown ink, clockwise from top center margin: Biancho; right center: figura; lower center: giallo rosso; lower margin: merello; lower left margin: Bigio chiaro; left margin: Viara; left center margin: figura; left upper margin: Notte [---]bi
Cite this object as
Drawing, Design for a Painted Ceiling; Italy; pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk on off-white laid paper; H x W: 21 × 33 cm (8 1/4 in. × 13 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-479
