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Drawing, Pair of Scissors with Handles Formed by Seated Half-pairs of Facing Llamas, or Camels.

This is a Drawing. We acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and ink, brush and gray wash on heavy off-white paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.

Its dimensions are

Sheet: 15.3 x 9.9 cm (6 x 3 7/8 in.)

It is inscribed

Recto: Inscribed in graphite at upper right: 41 Verso: Inscribed in graphite across sheet: P 12 - / upper right - / Leave paper / 2 / C

Cite this object as

Drawing, Pair of Scissors with Handles Formed by Seated Half-pairs of Facing Llamas, or Camels.; pen and ink, brush and gray wash on heavy off-white paper; Sheet: 15.3 x 9.9 cm (6 x 3 7/8 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-5462

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