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Drawing, Design for a Coffee Urn

This is a Drawing. It was designed by Joseph Anton Seethaler II. It is dated 1820-1830 and we acquired it in 1911. Its medium is pen and black ink, brush and gray, black wash on wover 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

53.6 × 40.1 cm (21 1/8 × 15 13/16 in.)

It has the following markings

Watermark: tops of J W (HATMAN)

It is inscribed

Written, bottom right: "Seethaler" and over it with reddish ink: "N 35"

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Coffee Urn; Designed by Joseph Anton Seethaler II (German, 1799–1868); Germany; pen and black ink, brush and gray, black wash on wover paper; 53.6 × 40.1 cm (21 1/8 × 15 13/16 in.); Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1911-28-321

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