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Drawing, Three Designs for Candlesticks, 1802
This is a Drawing. It is dated 1802 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and ink, brush and yellow, red, gray watercolor, graphite 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
35.5 × 43.7 cm (14 in. × 17 3/16 in.)
It has the following markings
Watermark: PM
It is signed
Signed in pen and ink, lower left: L R
It is inscribed
Inscribed in pen and ink, lower right: Fecit anno 1802; in pen and ink, verso, within oblong: Largheza della Cartagloria compresa la / cornice; in pen and ink, verso, vertically: altezza della carta gloria a cornu evangelico; in pen and ink, verso, center: Vano dello tempio di mezzo / piantato della Cartagloria di mezzo la quale deve es [?[ ere divisa in due parti ad oggetto di non coprire il temppio di / mezzo / La altezza della Cartagloria grande deve corispondere / alle altezze di quelle picciole; in pen and ink, verso, left: Larghezza dell'altra Cartagloria di / Mezza La quale si divide in due parti; in pen and ink, verso, right: tutto il vano di un cartagloria, di mezzi / compresa La cornice; in pen and ink, verso, with a correction of the plan: avertire di repristare un poco pin / per lo scriba die vi trova / si piu / per lo scriba che vi trova / si piu piantato
Cite this object as
Drawing, Three Designs for Candlesticks, 1802; Italy; pen and ink, brush and yellow, red, gray watercolor, graphite on paper; 35.5 × 43.7 cm (14 in. × 17 3/16 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-624
