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Drawing, Design for a Hanging Console

This is a Drawing. It is dated 1725–1750 and we acquired it in 1931. Its medium is black chalk, pen and ink on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

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

Its dimensions are

26 × 29.3 cm (10 1/4 × 11 9/16 in.)

It has the following markings

Watermark: a bunch of grapes

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Hanging Console; France; black chalk, pen and ink on paper; 26 × 29.3 cm (10 1/4 × 11 9/16 in.); Gift of Eleanor Garnier Hewitt; 1931-65-54

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