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Drawing, Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Loading or Unloading Goods

This is a Drawing. It was designed by Jean Charles Develly and company: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory. It is dated 1820–35 and we acquired it in 1980. Its medium is pen and brown ink, brush and pink, tan wash, white gouache, graphite on cream laid paper, lined. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Gift of Joseph F. McCrindle.

Its dimensions are

18.1 x 26.5 cm (7 1/8 x 10 7/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite, upper left margin, cut off at edge: [unreadable]; lower left, cut off at edge: [unreadable]

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Loading or Unloading Goods; Designed by Jean Charles Develly (French, 1783 - 1849); Company: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (France); France; pen and brown ink, brush and pink, tan wash, white gouache, graphite on cream laid paper, lined; 18.1 x 26.5 cm (7 1/8 x 10 7/16 in.); Gift of Joseph F. McCrindle; 1980-2-4

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