Adoration of the Shepherds (recto); Three Sketches: Buildings by Canal with Boats, Landscape with Buldings on Hillside, Buildings with Portico (verso)

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Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Francesco Guardi

Title

Adoration of the Shepherds (recto); Three Sketches: Buildings by Canal with Boats, Landscape with Buldings on Hillside, Buildings with Portico (verso)

Place

Italy (Artist's nationality:)

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1755–1770

Medium

Pen and brown ink and brush and pale brown wash, with traces of black chalk (recto), and pen and brown ink with brush and black and gray and brown wash and touches of red chalk (verso), on gray laid paper

Dimensions

37.8 × 51.8 cm (14 15/16 × 20 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Buckingham Fund

Reference Number

1961.48

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