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Drawing, Design for an Embroidery

This is a Drawing. It is dated 1775–1790 and we acquired it in 1914. Its medium is pen and ink, brush and blue watercolor, brush and gouache, gold on dutch 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

26.5 × 17.7 cm (10 7/16 × 6 15/16 in.)

It has the following markings

Watermark: crowned escutcheon

It is inscribed

On verso in ink: "33"

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for an Embroidery; France; pen and ink, brush and blue watercolor, brush and gouache, gold on dutch paper; 26.5 × 17.7 cm (10 7/16 × 6 15/16 in.); Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt; 1914-21-53

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