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Drawing, Design for an Oil Lamp

This is a Drawing. It is dated ca. 1855 and we acquired it in 1953. Its medium is graphite, pen and black ink, brush and water color, gouache on tracing paper, laid down. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase from Pauline Riggs Noyes Fund.

Its dimensions are

Sheet: 48.5 x 33.8 cm (19 1/8 x 13 5/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in pen and black ink, lower left: "Lampe carcel porcelaine montee de Bronze;" center: "no.57;" lower right: "hauteur 56c."

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for an Oil Lamp; France; graphite, pen and black ink, brush and water color, gouache on tracing paper, laid down; Sheet: 48.5 x 33.8 cm (19 1/8 x 13 5/16 in.); Museum purchase from Pauline Riggs Noyes Fund; 1953-206-3

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