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Drawing, Designs for Colored Glass Vases, ca. 1850

This is a Drawing. It is dated ca. 1850 and we acquired it in 1953. Its medium is brush and rose and green wash, gold gouache, graphite on white wove paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Mrs. Lincoln Johnson. It is credited Gift of Virginia Hamill.

Its dimensions are

40.7 x 31 cm (16 x 12 3/16 in.) Mat: 55.9 x 40.6 cm (22 x 16 in.)

It is inscribed

inscribed in pen and brown ink, bottom margin: N 3833 N 3832 N 3832; on verso, bottom margin: N3829 N 3830

Cite this object as

Drawing, Designs for Colored Glass Vases, ca. 1850; brush and rose and green wash, gold gouache, graphite on white wove paper; 40.7 x 31 cm (16 x 12 3/16 in.) Mat: 55.9 x 40.6 cm (22 x 16 in.); Gift of Virginia Hamill; 1953-82-2

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Cooper-Hewitt Collections: A Design Resource.

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