File:Drawing, Vision of Sainted Benedictine Monk, 1776 (CH 18543371).jpg

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English: Drawing, Vision of Sainted Benedictine Monk, 1776   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Francesco Saverio Mergolo
Title
English: Drawing, Vision of Sainted Benedictine Monk, 1776
Description
English: Recto: Vertical composition framed by a thick line of pen and black ink in the shape of a tombstone with concave corners. Depicted is angel supporting the collapsing saint. One points at an open book in the foreground at right. In the foreground at left are the upper parts of a Demon and of a woman chained to a stone wall. In the background at right is the Purgatory, with an angel liberating a soul. The composition has been squared in graphite. Verso: Above is a head, shown in profile; outlined. Below folded hands. Written below: "Mergolo" (erased) 1776/Egreg[ia] (erased) S[ignor]a E...
Date 1776
date QS:P571,+1776-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium brush and brown ink with gray wash; verso: pen and brown ink with black chalk on off-white laid paper
Dimensions 33.4 x 24 cm (13 1/8 x 9 7/16 in.)
institution QS:P195,Q1129820
Current location
Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design
Accession number
1938-88-4378
Credit line Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
Notes
  • Type: Drawing
  • Inscribed: Inscribed in pen and black ink, recto, bottom margin, right: Mergolo;

Verso, in graphite (erased): Mergolo; 1776 / Egreg[ia] (erased); S[ignor]a E. . . (erased); in ink: celoi / Zeppo.

  • Country: Italy
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