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Drawing, Stage Design, View of a Palace from a Terrace

This is a Drawing. It is dated ca. 1770–80 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk indications 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.

  • Drawing, Triumphal Arch on an Ideal Piazza
  • pen and black ink, brush and blue, green and yellow watercolor on cardboard.
  • Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.
  • 1938-88-4138

Its dimensions are

H x W: 36.8 × 51.2 cm (14 1/2 × 20 3/16 in.)

Cite this object as

Drawing, Stage Design, View of a Palace from a Terrace; Italy; pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk indications on paper; H x W: 36.8 × 51.2 cm (14 1/2 × 20 3/16 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-181

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