Salt from Salt Water
notes: label: Description
content: Volterra, an ancient town in the Tuscan region of Italy, has a productive salt spring known variously as the Moie or the Saline. This ink-and-wash drawing depicts the front and back of the house over that spring. The title reads “Piante per Levare L’Acqua dolce dalla Salata per le Moie di Volterra.” The partial signature at bottom left reads “Ciappevony.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Fabrizio Borelli, <i>Le Saline de Volterra nel Granducatio di Toscana</i> (Florence, 2000).
label: Description
content: Didier Boisseuil,<i>Le Thermalisme en Toscane à la fin du Moyen Age</i> (Rome, 2002).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London, City of London
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Prints from the Physical Sciences Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.329202
label: catalog number
content: 329202
label: accession number
content: 280071
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 16 1/2 in x 21 1/2 in; 41.91 cm x 54.61 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in mat: 23 in x 27 3/4 in x 1/8 in; 58.42 cm x 70.485 cm x .3175 cm