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1938

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2015

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Drawing, Ceiling with Jupiter, Jun

This is a Drawing. It was created by Giovanni Odazzi and attributions: Giuseppe Nicola Nasini. It is dated 1718–30 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and brown ink, watercolor, over graphite support: heavy white 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.

  • Dish (France)
  • tin-glazed earthenware.
  • Gift of Catharine Oglesby.
  • 1958-119-7

Its dimensions are

54 x 35.8 cm (21 1/4 x 14 1/8 in.) Mat: 55.9 x 71.1 cm (22 x 28 in.)

It has the following markings

Marks: fleur-de-lis in circle, similar to Heawood 1591

It is inscribed

Inscribed in pen and brown ink at lower right: del Albano Romo N.: on verso in another hand: No. LL

Cite this object as

Drawing, Ceiling with Jupiter, Jun; Giovanni Odazzi (1663 – 1731); Attributions: Giuseppe Nicola Nasini (1657–1736); Italy; pen and brown ink, watercolor, over graphite support: heavy white laid paper; 54 x 35.8 cm (21 1/4 x 14 1/8 in.) Mat: 55.9 x 71.1 cm (22 x 28 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-8323

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