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Deodato Minelli
active 1828-1832
Views of Rome
1832.
Leaves: 142 x 212 mm; drawings: 92 x 186 mm, average
Mostly in pen and brown ink and wash, some with blue watercolor, laid down on tan album leaves (wove paper) with framing lines in black ink.
2006.67
Gift of Julia P. Wightman.
Notes
Drawings vary in size.
Drawings depicting sites in Rome.
Drawings depicting sites in Rome.
Inscriptions/Markings
Frontispiece inscribed, "Deodatus/ Minelli/ Neg/ Roma/ MDCCCXXXII". Album bears sticker on flyleaf from "Deodato Minelli, Negoziante di Antichit`a ed Oggetti di Belle Arti, Fabbrica di Seppia, e bistro per l'acquarella, in Roma, via della Croce No. 19". Last page contains handwritten index identifying subject of each view.
Associated names
Wightman, Julia P. (Julia Parker), 1909-1994, former owner.
Artist
Classification
Century Drawings
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