A triangular pedestal resting on three lion paws supports a round shaft decorated with a festoon leads to a cup-shaped element decorated with leaves above which rises a slender cross. Two pen and brown ink framing lines.
Rights: Museum purchase through gift of various donors
Medium:Pen and brown ink, brush and green and gray wash, black chalk on cream wove paper
Signed: Signed pen and brown ink, lower margin, right: Paolo Roberto inv: 1837
Provenance: Giovanni Piancastelli, Rome
Paper Support: Cream wove paper
Inscribed: Inscribed in pen and black ink, lower margin, left: Si approva... / Scala di palmi 2 Napoletani; unreadable inscription in brown ink, above.
Dimensions: 32.6 x 20.6 cm (12 13/16 x 8 1/8 in.)
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