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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.361
People
Ferdinando Bibiena, Italian (Bologna, Italy 1657 - 1743 Bologna, Italy)
Title
A Roman Palace
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th-18th century
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296581

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and gray wash, and some graphite, on off-white antique laid paper
Dimensions
27.5 x 19.6 cm (10 13/16 x 7 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: crown above an elaborate shield

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, MA (by 1929), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year
1965
Object Number
1965.361
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Publication History

  • Adelyn Breeskin, Interpretations of Architecture in Drawings and Prints from the Renaissance through Le Corbusier, exh. cat., Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore, 1939), cat. no. 26
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 304, fig. 145
  • Agnes Mongan, Konrad Oberhuber, and Jonathan Bober, The Famous Italian Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 1988), p. 68, repr. fig. 47

Exhibition History

  • Interpretations of Architecture in Drawings and Prints from the Renaissance through Le Corbusier, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, 12/15/1939 - 01/26/1940

Verification Level

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