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Drawing, Study for a dancing woman, “Moods to Music,” Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York, NY

This is a Drawing. It was created by Robert Frederick Blum. It is dated 1880–1883 and we acquired it in 1904. Its medium is pen and ink, graphite on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Henrietta Haller. It is credited Gift of Henrietta Haller.

Its dimensions are

28 × 33.1 cm (11 in. × 13 1/16 in.)

It has the following markings

Stamp in black, lower left, (Lugt 457c): Museum for the Arts of Decoration Cooper Union

It is inscribed

Numbered in graphite, upper left corner: (461); Inscribed in graphite, lower right corner: 1880-3

Cite this object as

Drawing, Study for a dancing woman, “Moods to Music,” Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York, NY; Robert Frederick Blum (American, 1857–1903); USA; pen and ink, graphite on paper; 28 × 33.1 cm (11 in. × 13 1/16 in.); Gift of Henrietta Haller; 1904-16-495

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