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Drawing, Design for a Steeple

This is a Drawing. It was created by Unknown. It is dated 1508 and we acquired it in 1960. Its medium is pen and gray, brown ink, brush and gray, brown wash on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Friends of the Museum Fund.

Its dimensions are

135.6 x 27 cm (53 3/8 x 10 5/8 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in pen and black ink, lower margin: symbol / 1508 / 20

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Steeple; Unknown; Southern Germany; pen and gray, brown ink, brush and gray, brown wash on paper; 135.6 x 27 cm (53 3/8 x 10 5/8 in.); Friends of the Museum Fund; 1960-77-1

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

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