DrawingsItalian?18th century

Venus Offered Riches from the Sea

18th century

Artists

Unidentified ArtistArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Red chalk, squared in black chalk, on cream antique laid paper

Culture

Italian?

Century

18th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

34.5 x 46 cm (13 9/16 x 18 1/8 in.)

Provenance

Francis Calley Gray, bequest to nephew, William Gray, 1856. William Gray, gift to Harvard University, 1857.

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