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Drawing, Design for a Looking Glass and Console Table

This is a Drawing. It is dated 1810–30 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and black ink, brush and violet, olive, yellow watercolor, graphite on off-white 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

25.1 x 15.1 cm (9 7/8 x 5 15/16 in. )

It has the following markings

Verso: stamp: Museum of the Arts of Decoration [Lugt 457d]

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite, struck out, below: Palmi Romani; in graphite, at right: p 4/6; in graphite, verso: La luce d;

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Looking Glass and Console Table; Italy; pen and black ink, brush and violet, olive, yellow watercolor, graphite on off-white laid paper; 25.1 x 15.1 cm (9 7/8 x 5 15/16 in. ); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-586

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