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Drawing, Design for a State Coach or a Sedan Chair

This is a Drawing. It was designed by Daniel Marot. It is dated before 1695 and we acquired it in 1956. Its medium is pen and black ink, brush and gray wash and red, sepia and yellow watercolor, graphite on off-white laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase through gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.

Its dimensions are

34.3 x 25.7 cm (13 1/2 x 10 1/8 in. )

It has the following markings

Watermark: Strassburg lily in a shield, surmounted by a crown (cut off)

It is signed

Signed in pen and black ink, lower right: Daniel Marot fecit.

It is inscribed

Inscribed in pen and black ink, below image: numerical annotations.

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a State Coach or a Sedan Chair; Designed by Daniel Marot (French, active in the Netherlands and England, 1661–1752); Netherlands; pen and black ink, brush and gray wash and red, sepia and yellow watercolor, graphite on off-white laid paper; 34.3 x 25.7 cm (13 1/2 x 10 1/8 in. ); Museum purchase through gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt; 1956-15-2

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Foreign Exchange.

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