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Drawing, Design for a Fan: Capriccio with Roman Ruins and the Farnese Hercules
This is a Drawing. It was created by Giovanni Paolo Panini. It is dated ca. 1750 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, graphite on cream laid paper, lined. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
This object was featured in our Object of the Week series in a post titled Putting the Fan in Fantasy.
It is credited Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.
Its dimensions are
14.1 x 26 cm (5 9/16 x 10 1/4 in.)
It is signed
Lower left in pen and gray ink: I.P.P
Cite this object as
Drawing, Design for a Fan: Capriccio with Roman Ruins and the Farnese Hercules; Giovanni Paolo Panini (Italian, 1691 - 1765); Italy; pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, graphite on cream laid paper, lined; 14.1 x 26 cm (5 9/16 x 10 1/4 in.) ; Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-7323
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Excavating Design: 18th-century Drawings and Prints from the Permanent Collection.