Medium:Pen and brown ink, brush with brown and red wash (recto); pen and brown ink (verso)
Dimensions:4 11/16 x 9 7/16in. (11.9 x 23.9cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1919
Object Number:19.151.2
Marking: Watermark: crescent (see The Metropolitan Museum of Art and THe Pierpont Morgan Library, Drawings from New York Collections, vol. 3..., see Exh., watermark no. 12)
Robert Langton Douglas
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings from New York Collections: Eighteenth Century in Italy," January 30–March 21, 1971.
George A. Simonson Francesco Guardi, 1712-1793. London, 1904, cat. no. 53, fig. no. 53, p. 66, ill.
Agnes Mongan, Paul J. Sachs Master Drawings lent by Philip Hofer Exh. cat., Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fogg Museum of Art. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1940, cat. no. 317, vol. 1, p. 161.
Otto Benesch Venetian Drawings of the Eighteenth Century in America. New York, 1947, cat. no. 67, ill.
James Byam Shaw The Drawings of Francesco Guardi. London, 1951, cat. no. 52, pp. 72-73, ill.
Vittorio Moschini Francesco Guardi. Milan, 1952, fig. no. 181, ill.
Carlo L. Ragghianti "Epiloghi Guardeschi" Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. vol. 22, Pisa, 1953, cat. no. 31, fig. no. 31, ill.
Terisio Pignatti I disegni veneziani del Settecento. Treviso, n. d. [1965], cat. no. under no. 136, p. 221.
Jacob Bean, Felice Stampfle Drawings from New York Collections, vol. III: Eighteenth Century Italian Drawings. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 1971, cat. no. 197, ill.
James Byam Shaw "The Biron Collection of Venetian Eighteenth-Century Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art." The Metropolitan Museum Journal. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. 3, New York, 1971, p. 247.
Antonio Morassi Guardi. Tutti i disegni di Antonio, Francesco e Giacomo Guardi. Venice, 1975, cat. no. 291, fig. no. 294, ill.
Jacob Bean, William M. Griswold 18th Century Italian Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, cat. no. 99, fig. no. 99, pp. 115-17, ill.
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