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Drawing, Designs for a Sofa, Armchair, Console Table, Console Looking Glass

This is a Drawing. It is dated 1815–30 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is graphite on cream wove 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

25.4 × 43.6 cm (10 in. × 17 3/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite, lower right: Idea della mobiglie dell' anticamera

Cite this object as

Drawing, Designs for a Sofa, Armchair, Console Table, Console Looking Glass; Italy; graphite on cream wove paper; 25.4 × 43.6 cm (10 in. × 17 3/16 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-585

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