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Drawing, Vision of Sainted Benedictine Monk

This is a Drawing. It was created by Francesco Saverio Mergolo. It is dated 1776 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is brush and brown ink with gray wash; verso: pen and brown ink with black chalk on off-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

33.4 x 24 cm (13 1/8 x 9 7/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in pen and black ink, recto, bottom margin, right: Mergolo; Verso, in graphite (erased): Mergolo; 1776 / Egreg[ia] (erased); S[ignor]a E. . . (erased); in ink: celoi / Zeppo.

Cite this object as

Drawing, Vision of Sainted Benedictine Monk; Francesco Saverio Mergolo (Italian, 1746–1786); Southern Italy; brush and brown ink with gray wash; verso: pen and brown ink with black chalk on off-white laid paper ; 33.4 x 24 cm (13 1/8 x 9 7/16 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-4378

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