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Drawing, Prudence

This is a Drawing. It was created by Johann August Nahl The Younger and after Giulio Romano. It is dated ca. 1781. Its medium is lead pencil, pen and dark ink, brush and black and grey watercolors on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by George A. Hearn.

Its dimensions are

27.6 × 40.9 cm (10 7/8 × 16 1/8 in.)

It has the following markings

Watermark: vryheit in the schem of Churchill 89; the legend begins above at left but the letters have wrong directions

Cite this object as

Drawing, Prudence; Johann August Nahl The Younger (German, 1752 - 1825); After Giulio Romano (Italian, 1499–1546); Germany; lead pencil, pen and dark ink, brush and black and grey watercolors on paper; 27.6 × 40.9 cm (10 7/8 × 16 1/8 in.); 1897-9-13

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