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1938

  • Work on this object began.

1971

  • We acquired this object.

1987

  • Work on this object ended.

2015

2025

  • You found it!

Drawing, Costume Designs: The Great Waltz

This is a Drawing. It is dated 1938–1987 and we acquired it in 1971. Its medium is brush and opaque watercolor, graphite on cardboard. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Gift of Freddy Wittop.

Its dimensions are

38.2 x 51 cm (15 1/16 x 20 1/16 in.)

It is signed

Signed, lower right.

It is inscribed

Upper right, title, "Act I SceneI, Dancers."

Cite this object as

Drawing, Costume Designs: The Great Waltz; USA; brush and opaque watercolor, graphite on cardboard; 38.2 x 51 cm (15 1/16 x 20 1/16 in.); Gift of Freddy Wittop; 1971-1-6

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