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Drawing, Design for Three Lamps

This is a Drawing. It is dated ca. 1855 and we acquired it in 1953. Its medium is graphite, pen and ink, brush and watercolor, tempera on tracing paper. 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

36.6 x 45.3 cm (14 7/16 x 17 13/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in ink below each design: No 111. Lampe torse sur Trépied à feuilles; No 112. Lampe à Vignes sur Trépied vignes. / dessin moitié grandeur; No 113. Lampe à tête de bélier sur Trépied Console

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for Three Lamps; France; graphite, pen and ink, brush and watercolor, tempera on tracing paper; 36.6 x 45.3 cm (14 7/16 x 17 13/16 in.); Museum purchase from Pauline Riggs Noyes Fund; 1953-206-7

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