Ground Plan for an Academy of the Fine Arts

1750/1790

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and black and green inks with black wash over graphite on 4 joined sheets of laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 37.5 x 39.2 cm (14 3/4 x 15 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1997.75.3

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Lodewijk Houthakker, Amsterdam [Lugt undesc]); purchased by NGA, 1997.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1986

  • A New World. Neo-Classical Drawings from the Collection of Lodewijk Houthakker, The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, 1986, no. 58.

Bibliography

1989

  • Fuhring, Peter. Design into Art, Drawings for Architecture and Ornaments, The Lodewijk Houthakker Collection. London, 1989: no. 784.

Inscriptions

various notations overall

Wikidata ID

Q64570790

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