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Drawing, Design for a Waistcoat

This is a Drawing. It is dated 1780-1790 and we acquired it in 1906. Its medium is black chalk, pen, ink, and various gouaches on paper, pricked. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Jacob H. Schiff. It is credited Gift of Jacob H. Schiff.

Its dimensions are

27.2 × 43.1 cm (10 11/16 × 16 15/16 in.)

It has the following markings

Watermark: F

It is inscribed

Written similar to -178, "345"; top center: "29", corrected from "20." Bottom right: two accounts; beside the three top figures of the upper account are written: "meraisin (?) dam[asque], vam(?)rrespectively."

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Waistcoat; France; black chalk, pen, ink, and various gouaches on paper, pricked; 27.2 × 43.1 cm (10 11/16 × 16 15/16 in.); Gift of Jacob H. Schiff; 1906-21-191

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