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1920

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2025

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Drawing, Embroidery Design: Man's, ca. 1785

This is a Drawing. It was created by Mademoiselle Montalent and Mademoiselle Anteleme and manufactured by Fabrique de Saint Ruf. It is dated ca. 1785 and we acquired it in 1920. Its medium is gouache, over graphite on white laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Sarah Cooper Hewitt and Eleanor Garnier Hewitt. It is credited Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.

Its dimensions are

34.8 x 26 cm (13 11/16 x 10 1/4 in.) matted with -317 Mat: 55.9 x 71.1 cm (22 x 28 in.)

It has the following markings

Marks: Bunch of grapes suspended from a Strasburg bend, over CRA.

It is inscribed

in pen and brown ink: P 1802/ STR.

Cite this object as

Drawing, Embroidery Design: Man's, ca. 1785; Mademoiselle Montalent, Mademoiselle Anteleme; Manufactured by Fabrique de Saint Ruf; France; gouache, over graphite on white laid paper; 34.8 x 26 cm (13 11/16 x 10 1/4 in.) matted with -317 Mat: 55.9 x 71.1 cm (22 x 28 in.); Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt; 1920-36-75

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