DETAILS
- Artist
- Francesco Guardi
- Date
- 1712
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over red chalk. Selectively pricked holes for the construction of straight lines
- Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- 10 3/8 x 7 5/16in. (26.4 x 18.5cm)
- Collection
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Rogers Fund, 1937
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