Sketches of Tuscan Villas

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Bernardo delle Girandole Buontalenti

Title

Sketches of Tuscan Villas

Place

Italy (Artist's nationality:)

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1556–1608

Medium

Pen and brown ink with brush and brown and pink wash, over traces of graphite, on ivory laid paper, pieced and laid down on ivory laid paper

Inscriptions

Inscribed verso, upper left on mount, in pen and red ink: "Lot 1766; upper left on mount, in graphite: "Italian 17th c."

Dimensions

10.5 × 27.4 cm (4 3/16 × 10 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection

Reference Number

1922.2978

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