DrawingsItalian17th century

Holy Family

17th century

Artists

Unidentified ArtistArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Black ink and gray wash on dark cream antique laid paper, squared in black chalk, laid down overall to blue wove card decorative mount

Culture

Italian

Century

17th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

actual: 22.5 x 29.2 cm (8 7/8 x 11 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Robert Gilmor, Jr., Baltimore, MD; to his estate, 1848; to probably Gardner L. Chandler, Salem, MA; to John Witt Randall, Boston, MA, bequest; to his sister Belinda L. Randall, 1892, gift; to Harvard University, 1892.

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