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Drawing, Design for a Feather Skirt

This is a Drawing. It is dated 1785–1790 and we acquired it in 1920. Its medium is graphite, brush and olive green, lilac, gray, white, and blue 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

61.7 × 46.4 cm (24 5/16 × 18 1/4 in.)

It has the following markings

Watermark: CRA and Strasburg bend with hanging bunch of grapes over CRA; Watermark on mountin paper: "von Churchile r189"

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Feather Skirt; France; graphite, brush and olive green, lilac, gray, white, and blue gouache on paper; 61.7 × 46.4 cm (24 5/16 × 18 1/4 in.); Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt; 1920-36-24

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