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The Palace of Donn' Anna at Naples
Unknown1725-1750
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Large palace with unfinished upper storey, seen from one corner, situated near a bay. Boats and fishermen. Beside it, at right, is a mediaeval palace. At left are rocks. Framing line. Note: The palace was begun in 1642 after designs by Cosimo Fanzago, but never completed, for Donn'Anna Carafa, wife of the viceroy, Filippo Ramiro Guzman It is on the road to Pozzuoli....eed'70
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- Title: The Palace of Donn' Anna at Naples
- Creator: Unknown
- Date Created: 1725-1750
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- Medium: Brush and brown and gray wash, pen and brown ink on paper
- Provenance: From the Collection of Giovanni Piancastelli; Mr and Mrs Edward D. Brandegee
- Paper Support: paper
- Exhibitions: Exhibited: New York City, Finch College Museum of Art, " The Two Sicilies: Drawings from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum", Feb.4 - Mar.20, 1970, no.38, p.22, reproduced. ; Wellesley, Massachusetts, Wellesley College, Sept.12-Nov.22, 1970
- Dimensions: 24.6 x 38.4 cm (9 11/16 x 15 1/8 in.)
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