Design for a Monstrance

1600s

Anonymous

Drawings

Design for a Monstrance, 1600s. Anonymous. Pen and brown ink (ruled in places) and brush and brown wash, with graphite, traces of brush and gray and pink wash, and stylus; framing lines in graphite; sheet: 76.6 x 43 cm (30 3/16 x 16 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Delia E. Holden Fund 1971.33

Original Source

Maker/Artist: Anonymous
Classification: Drawing
Formatted Medium: pen and brown ink (ruled in places) and brush and brown wash, with graphite, traces of brush and gray and pink wash, and stylus; framing lines in graphite
Medium: pen, brown, ink, ruled, places, brush, wash, graphite, traces, gray, pink, stylus, framing, lines
Dimensions: Sheet: 76.6 x 43 cm (30 3/16 x 16 15/16 in.)
Inscribed: Inscription: upper left, in brown ink: N° 4 ; upper left, in brown ink: 16 / [illegible]0 [underlined] / 00 / 32 [underlined] / 3[illegible]6 [all upside down] ; upper right, in graphite: Principio ; lower left, in brown ink: [illegible] [crossed out in brown ink] ; lower left, in brown ink: N [underlined twice] ; lower left, in graphite: 755 [underlined] / 430 ; lower right, in graphite: Fine ; lower right, in graphite: 755 / 430 / 1/6 ; VERSO, upper center, in brown ink: t [shape of a cross] ; upper left, in graphite: [illegible] ; upper left, in graphite: osss ; across bottom, in brown ink: [long series of numbers, sideways] ; lower center, in brown ink: [illegible, masked] ; lower right, in graphite: [series of numbers, upside down] ; lower right, in black ink: 5 [sideways, circled]
Departments: Drawings
Accession Number: 1971.33
Credit Line: Delia E. Holden Fund
Exhibitions: Year in Review: 1971, Design and Decoration: Ornament Prints, Pepper Pike, Ohio, Wasmer Gallery (Ursuline College); Lakewood, Ohio, Kenneth C. Beck Center, Drawing: A Line of Departure (Oct. 12- Dec. 15, 1985; Sep. 7-Nov. 3, 1986).<br>CMA, "Year in Review for 1971" (Dec. 28, 1971-Feb. 6, 1972), cma Bulletin 59 (1972), p. 44 no. 110.
Rights Statement: CC0