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Giovanni Battista Borra, 1713–1770, Italian, Plan of Lake Tiberias, ca. 1750
- Title:
Plan of Lake Tiberias
- Date:
- ca. 1750
- Medium:
- Black ink with gray wash over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 14 13/16 x 21 7/16 inches (37.7 x 54.5 cm), Image: 9 1/4 x 14 7/16 inches (23.5 x 36.6 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, upper left: "120"; in brown ink, upper left: "CIX."; in black ink, within image: labels 1-17"; in graphite, lower center: "Plan of the Lake of Tiberias"
watermark: Strasburg lily with "VDL" [Van der Ley] in monogram
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.970
- Classification:
- Drawing & Watercolors-Architectural
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- architectural subject | cartographic material | hills | lake | landscape | site plan | topographic map
- Associated Places:
- Asia | HaZafon, Mehoz | Israel | Sea of Galilee
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:27048
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