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Drawing, Design for Grotesque Decoration
This is a Drawing. It was created by Unknown. It is dated mid–late 16th century and we acquired it in 1994. Its medium is pen and brown ink, black chalk on off-white laid paper, mounted on laid paper . It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
It is credited Museum purchase through gift of the Misses Leupp and Mary Turlay Robinson and from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program Fund.
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Its dimensions are
H x W x D: 13.5 × 7.9 cm (5 5/16 × 3 1/8 in.) Mat: 71.1 × 55.9 cm (28 × 22 in.) matted with 1994-64-2 and1994-64-3
It has the following markings
Fragment of shield (with cross, saint?) on mount sheet between -2 and -3.
It is inscribed
Inscribed in graphite by a later hand, lower right of mount (bearing 3 drawings, -1,-2,-3): Gianantonio da Brescia/cf. Nicola Modena; at lower right on mount beneath each drawing, 13.5 x 8.0 cm. (top); 179 x 92 mm (LL); 173 x 107 mm. (LR) Numbers partially erased beneath each drawing on mount at LL, 44 233/44 233a/44 233b. Numerals in graphite at lower left ofmount sheet: 286/Inv 1g 87(?); lower right, 100
Cite this object as
Drawing, Design for Grotesque Decoration; Unknown; Italy; pen and brown ink, black chalk on off-white laid paper, mounted on laid paper ; H x W x D: 13.5 × 7.9 cm (5 5/16 × 3 1/8 in.) Mat: 71.1 × 55.9 cm (28 × 22 in.) matted with 1994-64-2 and1994-64-3; Museum purchase through gift of the Misses Leupp and Mary Turlay Robinson and from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program Fund; 1994-64-1
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Fragile Beasts.