AT-00020121
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Illustration for a Book: Soldiers Offering the Decapitated Head of a Man and Keys to a General
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, Venice 1696–1770 Madrid)
- Date
- 1696–1770
- Medium
- Black chalk reworked with traces of red chalk. Horizontal and vertical centering lines ruled in faint black chalk
- Dimensions
- 2-15/16 x 6-1/8 in. (7.5 x 15.5 cm)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawings
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
- Accession no.
- 59.600.186
Provenance
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