Alexander's Confidence with his Physician Philip

washdrawings (visual works)

Date

c. 1770

Medium

Brush and brown and black wash, with tan gouache, heightened with white gouache, with incising, on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory laid card

Dimensions

Primary support: 21.8 × 30 cm (8 5/8 × 11 13/16 in.); Secondary support: 30.1 × 36.9 cm (11 7/8 × 14 9/16 in.)

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Location

Chicago, IL

Credit

Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection

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