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Drawing, Designs for Woven Paisley

This is a Drawing. It is dated 1825–40 and we acquired it in 1909. Its medium is brush and orange-pink, yellow gouache, graphite on brown oiled translucent paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Eleanor Garnier Hewitt and Sarah Cooper Hewitt. It is credited Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.

Its dimensions are

21.2 × 16.2 cm (8 3/8 × 6 3/8 in.)

It has the following markings

Stamp in black ink, center right, L.457c: Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration

Cite this object as

Drawing, Designs for Woven Paisley; brush and orange-pink, yellow gouache, graphite on brown oiled translucent paper; 21.2 × 16.2 cm (8 3/8 × 6 3/8 in.); Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt; 1909-13-101

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