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Drawing, Designs for Cups and Bottles

This is a Drawing. It is dated ca. 1825 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is graphite, pen and black ink, brush and gray and yellow watercolor on cream 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

25 × 42.2 cm (9 13/16 × 16 5/8 in.)

It has the following markings

Watermark: monogram formed by letters FAS

It is inscribed

Inscribed in pen and ink, upper left corner: Vergoldt von hyalith; in pen and ink, above each object from left to right: flacon No. 1 / flacon No. 2 / flacon No. 3 / Fidibus Becher No. 1 / Federbecher No. 2 / Eyerbecher No. 1; in pen and ink, verso: L / D4

Cite this object as

Drawing, Designs for Cups and Bottles; Germany; graphite, pen and black ink, brush and gray and yellow watercolor on cream paper; 25 × 42.2 cm (9 13/16 × 16 5/8 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-581

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