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Drawing, Design for a Painted Ceiling of Irregular Shape: Aurora
This is a Drawing. It was designed by Flaminio Innocenzi Minozzi. It is dated 1790–1810 and we acquired it in 1901. Its medium is pen and brown and black ink, brush and watercolor, black chalk on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
This object was
donated by
Various Donors.
It is credited Museum purchase through gift of various donors.
- Drawing, Project for Ceiling Design Depicting Aurora
- pen and brown ink, brush and watercolor, black chalk on off-white laid paper.
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors.
- 1901-39-3213
- Drawing, Perspective Design for a Painted Dome and Cupola of a Church
- pen and black ink, brush and gray wash on off-white laid paper.
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.
- 1938-88-3461
Its dimensions are
48.5 x 48.5 cm (19 1/8 x 19 1/8 in. ); irregular
It has the following markings
Watermark: WHATMAN and the left side of a Strasburgh lily above a similar watermark:monogram (See Churchill 415).
It is inscribed
Inscribed in pen and black ink, at each corner on each pedestal beneath each portrait:HOMERUS/ APELLES/ VITRUVIUS/ ORPHEUS
Cite this object as
Drawing, Design for a Painted Ceiling of Irregular Shape: Aurora; Designed by Flaminio Innocenzi Minozzi (Italian, 1735 – 1817); Italy; pen and brown and black ink, brush and watercolor, black chalk on paper; 48.5 x 48.5 cm (19 1/8 x 19 1/8 in. ); irregular; Museum purchase through gift of various donors; 1901-39-1803
