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St. John the Baptist in the Wilderness

(Italian (Venetian), about 1488–1576)
(Italian (Venetian), about 1488–1576)
16th century
Medium/TechniquePen and brown ink and brown wash over black chalk, heightened with white, on bluish-gray paper
DimensionsSheet: 41.5 x 36.4 cm (16 5/16 x 14 5/16 in. )
Credit LineGift of Quincy Adams Shaw
Accession number94.85
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDrawings
ProvenanceQuincy Adams Shaw (b. 1825 - d. 1908), Boston; 1894, gift of Shaw to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 1, 1894)
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