The Game of Bowls

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo1790s

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Title: The Game of Bowls
Creator: Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Italian, 1727-1804)
Date Created: 1790s
Physical Dimensions: Sheet: 35.5 x 47.3 cm (14 x 18 5/8 in.); Image: 29.7 x 41.6 cm (11 11/16 x 16 3/8 in.)
Provenance: [Sotheby's, London, 6 July 1920, lot 41]; [Colnaghi & Co.]; Richard Owen, Paris (all Udine & Bloomington, 1996, p. 216, no. 155; see departmental card for 1937.569). Italico Brass, Venice (according to departmental card)
Type: Drawing
Rights: CC0
External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1937.571
Medium: pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, over traces of black chalk; framing lines in brown ink over graphite
Inscriptions: signed, lower left, in brown ink: Dom°. Tiepolo f ; upper left, in brown ink: 20 ; upper left, in graphite: o ; lower right, in graphite: 20 [sideways] ; VERSO, upper right, in blue crayon: 3
Department: Drawings
Culture: Italy, 18th century
Credit Line: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Collection: DR - Italian
Accession Number: 1937.571

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