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Drawing, Design for Top Frame of a Harp, 1790

This is a Drawing. It was designed by Richard de Lalonde. It is dated 1790 and we acquired it in 1911. Its medium is pen and black ink, brush and wash on gray-tan laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Advisory Council. It is credited Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.

Its dimensions are

26 x 14.9 cm (10 1/4 x 5 7/8 in.)

It has the following markings

Churchill 201 with a sheaf of grain instead of the crowned W, over SK and W.

It is inscribed

Inscribed in black ink, left, written horizontally: profils et face d'une arp avunque un pallemeur (the end of last words is under an erasure).

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for Top Frame of a Harp, 1790; Designed by Richard de Lalonde (French, active 1780–96); France; pen and black ink, brush and wash on gray-tan laid paper; 26 x 14.9 cm (10 1/4 x 5 7/8 in.); Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1911-28-192

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