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1911

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2025

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Drawing, The Elevation of a Mantlepiece and Adjoining Niche, ca. 1770

This is a Drawing. It is dated ca. 1770 and we acquired it in 1911. Its medium is pen and ink, brush and watercolor on white laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.

Its dimensions are

46.7 x 15.5 cm (18 3/8 x 6 1/8 in.)

It has the following markings

Watermark: right half of Strasburg lily with 4 over DL

It is inscribed

In pen and black ink, lower left: inv. F.Delafosse; lower center: 5 pieds (struck out); In pen and brown ink, within mirror: M. 186 (struck out)

Cite this object as

Drawing, The Elevation of a Mantlepiece and Adjoining Niche, ca. 1770; France; pen and ink, brush and watercolor on white laid paper; 46.7 x 15.5 cm (18 3/8 x 6 1/8 in.); Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1911-28-45

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