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Drawing, Project for a Herm

This is a Drawing. It was attributed to Domenico Peruzzini. It is dated 1725-50 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and ink, brush and grey-brown watercolor on laid paper.. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.

Its dimensions are

H x W: 27.2 × 17.5 cm (10 11/16 × 6 7/8 in.)

It is inscribed

Written in the lower half of the left side: Illmo Sigre Quando V s con/Domo Pion/.; Than once more in the same order: Domenico Pron Con (?) Domco, with a paraph; below: Rom.; At the lower left edge in a handwriting of the 17th century or later: Di Domeo Peruzzini.

Cite this object as

Drawing, Project for a Herm; Attributed to Domenico Peruzzini (Italian, 1602 - 1673); France; pen and ink, brush and grey-brown watercolor on laid paper.; H x W: 27.2 × 17.5 cm (10 11/16 × 6 7/8 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-2607

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