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1943

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Album Page, Balustrade Plan and Molding Profiles from Loggia of the Campanile of San Marco, Venice

This is a Album page. It was created by Whitney Warren Jr.. It is dated 1890 and we acquired it in 1943. Its medium is graphite on off-white wove paper tipped into binding with fabric. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Mrs. William Greenough. It is credited Gift of Mrs. William Greenough.

Its dimensions are

31.9 x 24.7 cm (12 9/16 x 9 3/4 in.)

It is inscribed

Recto, in graphite, upper right corner: 87; lower right corner: 84; bottom half of sheet, clockwise from left edge: the flag poles in piazza are about / 18 meters high . . . anything; balustrade mould and piece of large ... cols - ; Campanile / St Marks / Measurements taken of the Loggia / of the Campanile of San Marco / Venice / in 1890. [Numerous other small inscriptions and dimensions.]

Cite this object as

Album Page, Balustrade Plan and Molding Profiles from Loggia of the Campanile of San Marco, Venice; Whitney Warren Jr. (American, 1864–1943); Italy; graphite on off-white wove paper tipped into binding with fabric; 31.9 x 24.7 cm (12 9/16 x 9 3/4 in.); Gift of Mrs. William Greenough; 1943-51-247

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