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Drawing, Project for a wallpaper frieze

This is a Drawing. It is dated 1780–1800 and we acquired it in 1920. Its medium is pen and ink, brush and gouache, oxydized white 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

23.1 x 31.6 cm (9 1/8 x 12 7/16 in.)

Cite this object as

Drawing, Project for a wallpaper frieze; France; pen and ink, brush and gouache, oxydized white on paper; 23.1 x 31.6 cm (9 1/8 x 12 7/16 in.); Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt; 1920-36-16

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