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Drawing, Design for a Billiard Table

This is a Drawing. It is dated ca. 1805 and we acquired it in 1911. Its medium is pen and black ink, brush and ink, yellow wash on 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

27.3 x 33 cm (10 3/4 in. x 13 in.)

It has the following markings

Watermark: Strassburg lily in a shield and C & I HONIG (Heawood 1854)

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Billiard Table; Germany; pen and black ink, brush and ink, yellow wash on paper; 27.3 x 33 cm (10 3/4 in. x 13 in.); Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1911-28-480

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