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Drawing, Design for Dados

This is a Drawing. It is dated 1725–50 and we acquired it in 1901. Its medium is pen and black ink, brush and brown wash on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase through gift of various donors.

Its dimensions are

28.3 x 21.5 cm (11 1/8 x 8 7/16 in.)

It has the following markings

Stamp in black ink, lower right: Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonial Institution (Lugt 457d); verso, stamp in brown ink: Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonial Institution (Lugt 457e)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite, lower left: Pia[...]

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for Dados; Italy; pen and black ink, brush and brown wash on paper; 28.3 x 21.5 cm (11 1/8 x 8 7/16 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors; 1901-39-1279

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