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1938

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Drawing, Design for a Hand Bell in Neo-Renaissance Style

This is a Drawing. It is dated 1825 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and ink, brush and wash, graphite on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.

Its dimensions are

17 × 12.7 cm (6 11/16 in. × 5 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed on verso: C pre'liure apartien / a moy lionard Chailleat / Seprep / sepressen libro apartene / A me leonnar scallia; in graphite, upper left: S R.

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Hand Bell in Neo-Renaissance Style; pen and ink, brush and wash, graphite on paper; 17 × 12.7 cm (6 11/16 in. × 5 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-2228

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