Four Alternate Designs for a Vault — Anonymous, Italian, Piedmontese, 18th century | DiscoverArt

Anonymous, Italian, Piedmontese, 18th century

Four Alternate Designs for a Vault

1700–1780

Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash and watercolor, over leadpoint or graphite, with ruled and compass construction. Traces of red chalk; framing lines in pen and brown ink

28.5 × 27.7 cm (11.2 × 10.9 in)

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