The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 28, 2023

Elevation for Wall Decoration

c. 1550

Italy, 16th century

Pen and brown ink (ruled in places) and brush and brown wash with graphite and graphite wash; framing lines in brown ink and graphite

Support: Cream(3) laid paper

Sheet: 35.5 x 22.8 cm (14 x 9 in.); Image: 35.3 x 22.5 cm (13 7/8 x 8 7/8 in.)

Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 1927.363

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

lower right, in graphite: [2?]8 ; VERSO, lower center, in graphite: 14 ; lower right, in graphite: A. 3935 / T/A/-

Provenance
[Colnaghi, London]
Exhibition history

CMA, The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles (Mar. 6-Apr. 22, 1979), no. 64, illus.

CMA, Prints and Drawings of Ornamental Designs--Museum Collection (Nov. 7, 1944-Jan. 26, 1945) [as by Andrea Contucci].

CMA, Drawings by Old Italian Masters from the Collection (June 5, 1940-Feb. 25, 1941).

Baltimore Museum of Art, Architectural Renderings from the Renaissance to Le Corbusier (Dec. 15, 1939-Jan. 10, 1940).

Interpretations of Architecture in Drawings and Prints from the Renaissance from Le Corbusier. The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (organizer) (December 15, 1939-January 8, 1940).

Drawings by Old Italian Masters. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 5, 1940-February 25, 1941).

The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 6-April 22, 1979).

Design and Decoration: Ornament Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 7-October 28, 1990).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1927.363