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Drawing, Design for a clock

This is a Drawing. It is dated 1800–1825 and we acquired it in 1931. Its medium is pen and black ink, brush and yellow, red watercolor, on cream laid 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

42 x 32.4 cm (16 9/16 x 12 3/4 in.)

It has the following markings

Lower right: Cooper Union stamp # 457 D

It is inscribed

Lower center, pen and brown ink: le genie couronnant la poesie 77 / E.p.i.f. aild.|ravd d99

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a clock; Belgium; pen and black ink, brush and yellow, red watercolor, on cream laid paper; 42 x 32.4 cm (16 9/16 x 12 3/4 in.); Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt; 1931-71-12

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