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Drawing, Design for the Base of the Silver Crucifix for the High Altar of Saint Peter's, Rome, Italy
This is a Drawing. It was attributed to Carlo Spagna and after Antonio Gentilili da Faenza. It is dated 1670–72 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, black chalk on off-white laid paper; verso: black chalk. 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.
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Its dimensions are
49.2 x 33 cm (19 3/8 x 13 in.)
It has the following markings
Stamp in brown ink, verso lower right: Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration, Lugt 457e.
It is inscribed
Inscribed in pen and brown ink, lower right verso: 8
Cite this object as
Drawing, Design for the Base of the Silver Crucifix for the High Altar of Saint Peter's, Rome, Italy; Attributed to Carlo Spagna (Italian, ca. 1641 - 1680); After Antonio Gentilili da Faenza (Italian, 1519 – 1609); Italy; pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, black chalk on off-white laid paper; verso: black chalk; 49.2 x 33 cm (19 3/8 x 13 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-6982
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Hewitt Sisters Collect.