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Drawing, Design for a Chatelaine with Watch

This is a Drawing. It was designed by Alexis Falize. It is dated ca. 1875 and we acquired it in 1950. Its medium is brush and gouache, gum varnish, graphite on buff-colored laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. Gustav E. Kissel.

Its dimensions are

20.4 x 10.4 cm (8 1/16 x 4 1/8 in.)

It is inscribed

In graphite on mount, lower right: D [---]2, Verso of mount, in graphite, lower right: IB

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Chatelaine with Watch; Designed by Alexis Falize (French, 1811–1898); France; brush and gouache, gum varnish, graphite on buff-colored laid paper; 20.4 x 10.4 cm (8 1/16 x 4 1/8 in.) ; Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. Gustav E. Kissel; 1950-6-2

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