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Drawing, Design for an Oil Lamp

This is a Drawing. It was designed by Luigi Righetti. It is dated ca. 1810 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and ink, brush and sepia wash, gray watercolor, graphite on light blue 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

38.6 × 19.2 cm (15 3/16 × 7 9/16 in.)

It is signed

Signed in pen and ink, bottom right: L. R. Fecit

It is inscribed

Inscribed in pen and ink, bottom center: Per fattiera Scudi 150

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for an Oil Lamp; Designed by Luigi Righetti (Italian, 1780 - 1819); Italy; pen and ink, brush and sepia wash, gray watercolor, graphite on light blue paper; 38.6 × 19.2 cm (15 3/16 × 7 9/16 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-600

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