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Drawing, Design for the Decoration of Mouldings

This is a Drawing. It was created by C. C.. It is dated 1811 and we acquired it in 1909. Its medium is graphite, pen and black ink, brush and gray watercolor, black on light creamy 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

22.8 × 44.9 cm (9 in. × 17 11/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Note at the right edge of the back: "Presented by / the Misses Hewitt / January 1901"

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for the Decoration of Mouldings; C. C. (French, active 19th c.); France; graphite, pen and black ink, brush and gray watercolor, black on light creamy paper; 22.8 × 44.9 cm (9 in. × 17 11/16 in.); Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt; 1909-13-9

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