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Drawing, Design for a Church Festival Setting, ca. 1700

This is a Drawing. It is dated ca. 1700 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is brush and gray watercolor, black chalk on laid paper; verso: graphite. 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: 54.7 × 37.5 cm (21 9/16 × 14 3/4 in.)

It has the following markings

Watermark: lily in ovoid, above: T; beneath: M

It is inscribed

Inscribed in pen and ink, upper right: 24; verso: Abbozzi di Crospettus in aequarello

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Church Festival Setting, ca. 1700; Italy; brush and gray watercolor, black chalk on laid paper; verso: graphite; H x W: 54.7 × 37.5 cm (21 9/16 × 14 3/4 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-544

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