Album of Counterproofs (A Number Reworked Freehand) of Red Chalk Drawings after Polidoro da Caravaggio's Roman Facade Frescoes and Annibale Caracci's Frescoes in the Camerino Farnese.
Object type: Album
Department: Drawings and Prints
Artist: Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi
Artist bio: Italian, Florence, 1615 or 1618–after 1669
Artist role: Artist
Artist nationality: Italian
Date: 1650–69
Medium: Red chalk counterproofs; many reworked with pen and brown ink or black chalk or graphite; some reworked freehand with red chalk; with five engravings facing the corresponding design counterproof on pages 29, 30, and 36; framing outlines in pen and brown ink.
Dimensions: Overall: 16 1/8 x 11 1/4 x 3/4 in. (41 x 28.5 x 1.9 cm)
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Classification: Albums|Drawings
Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949
Accession year: 1949