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Drawing, Design for a Ground Floor Window Case

This is a Drawing. It is dated ca. 1750 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is brush and bistre wash, black crayon, graphite on cream laid paper mounted to laid 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

27.4 × 12.1 cm (10 13/16 × 4 3/4 in.)

It has the following markings

Watermark: triple mount topped by a small cross, over the letters "CO"

It is inscribed

Inscribed in pen and brown ink, left: 45 due

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Ground Floor Window Case; Italy; brush and bistre wash, black crayon, graphite on cream laid paper mounted to laid paper; 27.4 × 12.1 cm (10 13/16 × 4 3/4 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-558

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