Drawing, Three Designs for Candlesticks

This is a Drawing. It was designed by Luigi Righetti. It is dated 1802 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and ink, brush and sepia wash, gray, yellow watercolor, graphite on light blue 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

33.5 × 39.6 cm (13 3/16 × 15 9/16 in.)

It has the following markings

Watermark: escutcheon with horn above crown

It is inscribed

Inscribed in pen and ink, verso: Latitudine dell' gradino ove devone posaré. Li tre candellieri maggiori; in pen and ink, verso, vertically: altezza delli sei candellieri senza il suo bocaglio il quale vede / i quattro contro lomi dell' tutto simmili solo una. Si i pio bassi; in pen and ink, verso, below, on another line: altezza dell Cristo con sua croce / e suo basamento dall' quale / non si puote sortire il piantato / dell' Cristo deve posare sopra di / un cuppolina di un temppio; in pen and ink, verso, accompanying a plan of a base: pianta di quelle di / marmo che gia esistano

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