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Drawing, Design for a Brocade, Fragment

This is a Drawing. It is dated 1825–1850 and we acquired it in 1909. Its medium is brush and gouache, brush and black paint on oily tracing 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

(Left and Top edges): 16.9 × 39.5 cm (6 5/8 × 15 9/16 in.) (Right and Bottom edges): 40.5 × 47.7 cm (15 15/16 × 18 3/4 in.)

It is inscribed

Written with ink, top left: "905."

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Brocade, Fragment; France; brush and gouache, brush and black paint on oily tracing paper; (Left and Top edges): 16.9 × 39.5 cm (6 5/8 × 15 9/16 in.) (Right and Bottom edges): 40.5 × 47.7 cm (15 15/16 × 18 3/4 in.); Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt; 1909-13-44

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