Sheet of Sketches: Sea Monsters and Elaborate Portals (recto); Sketches of Architectural Details (verso)

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Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Agostino Mitelli

Title

Sheet of Sketches: Sea Monsters and Elaborate Portals (recto); Sketches of Architectural Details (verso)

Place

Italy (Artist's nationality:)

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Made 1629–1660

Medium

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

Dimensions

20.4 × 29.2 cm (8 1/16 × 11 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection

Reference Number

1922.880

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