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Drawing, Design for Two Chairs with Alternative Suggestions

This is a Drawing. It is dated 1760–65. Its medium is pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, graphite on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Mrs. Abram S. Hewitt.

Its dimensions are

40.6 x 32 cm (16 in. x 12 5/8 in.)

It has the following markings

Stamp in black ink, lower right: Cooper Union [Lugt 457c]. Watermark: Strasburg bend and lily with hanging beehive

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for Two Chairs with Alternative Suggestions; France; pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, graphite on paper; 40.6 x 32 cm (16 in. x 12 5/8 in.); 1896-14-3

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