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Drawing, Design for an Altar
This is a Drawing. It was designed by Filippo Marchionni. It is dated ca. 1780–90 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, black chalk on 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: 35.5 × 17.2 cm (14 in. × 6 3/4 in.)
It is inscribed
Inscribed in pen and brown ink, lower left: Del[....] Filippo Marchionni; partially obliterated in graphite at lower left: Piancastelli, Mrs. Clarence Webster
Cite this object as
Drawing, Design for an Altar; Designed by Filippo Marchionni (Italian, 1732–1805); Italy; pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, black chalk on white laid paper; H x W: 35.5 × 17.2 cm (14 in. × 6 3/4 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-496
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Cooper-Hewitt Collections: A Design Resource.
