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Drawing, Design for Two Small Breakfast Tables

This is a Drawing. It was designed by Angelo Mezzetti. It is dated early 19th century and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and black ink, brush and watercolor, gold paint on white paper, lined with 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

25.3 × 35.7 cm (9 15/16 × 14 1/16 in.)

It is signed

Signed in pen and black ink, lower right: Angelo Mezzetti Arch. inv. e dis.

It is inscribed

Inscribed in pen and black ink, top: Idea di due Tavolini simili a forma di Dijounè; in pen and black ink, clockwise, from upper left: Prospetto nel punto C / Taglio sulla linea AB / Piano superiore / Piano inferiore / Piano superiore Indication of scale in pen and black ink in Palmi Romani

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for Two Small Breakfast Tables; Designed by Angelo Mezzetti (Italian); Italy; pen and black ink, brush and watercolor, gold paint on white paper, lined with blue paper; 25.3 × 35.7 cm (9 15/16 × 14 1/16 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-578

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