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Drawing, Fantastic Garden

This is a Drawing. It was designed by Carlo Antonio Buffagnotti. It is dated ca. 1700 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and brown ink, 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

35.2 x 25.5 cm (13 7/8 x 10 1/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in pen and brown ink, within ruled borders, at bottom: Veduta di Giardino Carlo Antonio Buffagnotti inv. fece; in pen and black ink on verso: D; in red ink: 66, covered with a pasted label inscribed: 27

Cite this object as

Drawing, Fantastic Garden; Designed by Carlo Antonio Buffagnotti (Italian, ca. 1660–after 1715); Italy; pen and brown ink, black chalk on off-white laid paper; 35.2 x 25.5 cm (13 7/8 x 10 1/16 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-2993

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Cooper-Hewitt Collections: A Design Resource.

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