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Drawing, Design for an Emrboidery Repeat

This is a Drawing. It is dated 1780–1800 and we acquired it in 1914. Its medium is pen and ink, brush and gouache on 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

17.7 × 11.3 cm (6 15/16 × 4 7/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in ink, top left: 3296; Top left, incised writing: second line: "faundon (?) le / bon gercon (?)"

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for an Emrboidery Repeat; France; pen and ink, brush and gouache on paper; 17.7 × 11.3 cm (6 15/16 × 4 7/16 in.); Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt; 1914-21-60

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