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Drawing, Design for a Fountain with Pegasus, for the Villa Albani, Rome

This is a Drawing. It was architect: Carlo Marchionni. It is dated ca. 1750 and we acquired it in 1901. Its medium is pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, graphite on cream laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Various Donors. It is credited Museum purchase through gift of various donors.

Its dimensions are

31.9 x 35.1 cm (12 9/16 x 13 13/16 in.)

It has the following markings

Watermark: in the form of IV. See Churchill, p. 21 s.

It is inscribed

Inscribed in pen and brown ink, center of lower margin: Scala di Palmi Quaranta Romani.

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Fountain with Pegasus, for the Villa Albani, Rome; Architect: Carlo Marchionni (Italian, 1702–1786); Italy; pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, graphite on cream laid paper; 31.9 x 35.1 cm (12 9/16 x 13 13/16 in.) ; Museum purchase through gift of various donors; 1901-39-2102

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