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Drawing, Adoration of the Shepherds

This is a Drawing. It was created by Ubaldo Gandolfi. It is dated 1766 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, black chalk on white laid paper, laid down on blue wove 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

28.2 x 19.5 cm (11 1/8 x 7 11/16 in.) mount 31.2 x 22.2cm Mat: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in.)

It has the following markings

Mounted to cream laid paper with a watermark of an encircled fleur-de-lis

Cite this object as

Drawing, Adoration of the Shepherds; Ubaldo Gandolfi (Italian, 1728 – 1781); Italy; pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, black chalk on white laid paper, laid down on blue wove paper; 28.2 x 19.5 cm (11 1/8 x 7 11/16 in.) mount 31.2 x 22.2cm Mat: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-4362

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

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