David with Goliath's Head and Sword

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Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Giovanni Battista Paggi

Title

David with Goliath's Head and Sword

Place

Italy (Artist's nationality:)

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1587

Medium

Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white and traces of graphite, on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper

Inscriptions

Inscribed recto, lower edge, in pen and brown ink: "A Ms Giuseppe Casabona semphista di S.A. à Firenze, GPB 1587"

Dimensions

25.9 × 17.5 cm (10 1/4 × 6 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection

Reference Number

1922.1920

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