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Giovanni Battista Borra, 1713–1770, Italian, Samos, ca. 1750
- Title:
Samos
- Additional Title(s):
View of Samos
- Date:
- ca. 1750
- Medium:
- Gray wash with black and brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 14 15/16 x 21 1/4 inches (38 x 54 cm), Image: 7 15/16 x 12 7/16 inches (20.2 x 31.6 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, upper left: "50 | XXXXIV."; in brown ink, upper left: "L."; within image: labels A-E; lower center: "SAMOS"
watermark: Strasburg bend and lily with "WR" [Wendelin Riehel of Basle] in monogram (Churchill 408)
signed in brown ink, lower left: "Borra Archus. Del."; not dated
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.996
- Classification:
- Drawing & Watercolors-Architectural
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- hills | landscape | mountains | ruins | sailboats | ship
- Associated Places:
- Greece | Nísoi Aiyaíou | Sámos | Sámos | Sámos, Nísos
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:27074
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