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Anonymous, Italian, Piedmontese, 18th century

Partial View of an Architectural Interior (recto); Undecipherable Sketches (verso)

1700–1780
Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, heightened with dark brown ink over traces of graphite. Framing outlines in brush and gray wash (recto). Black chalk sketches (verso)
20 × 15.8 cm (7.9 × 6.2 in)

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