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Drawing, Design for Woven Shawl with Paisley Motif
This is a Drawing. It is dated 1825–50 and we acquired it in 1924. Its medium is brush and gouache on brown oiled translucent paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
One motif employed by European designers to imitate Kashmiri originals is the coif boteh, a main cone accompanied by an independent floral stem arching over it, called a raceme.
This object was
donated by
Sarah Cooper Hewitt and Eleanor Garnier Hewitt.
It is credited Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
Its dimensions are
16.6 × 9.4 cm (6 9/16 × 3 11/16 in.) Mat: 35.6 × 45.7 cm (14 × 18 in.)
Cite this object as
Drawing, Design for Woven Shawl with Paisley Motif; France; brush and gouache on brown oiled translucent paper; 16.6 × 9.4 cm (6 9/16 × 3 11/16 in.) Mat: 35.6 × 45.7 cm (14 × 18 in.); Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt; 1924-15-20
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Paisley.
