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Drawing, Designs for Two Drawer Handles

This is a Drawing. It is dated ca. 1820 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and black ink, brush and yellow, brown, gray wash on paper; verso: graphite. 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

40.4 × 24.3 cm (15 7/8 × 9 9/16 in.)

It has the following markings

Watermark: P M

Cite this object as

Drawing, Designs for Two Drawer Handles; Italy; pen and black ink, brush and yellow, brown, gray wash on paper; verso: graphite; 40.4 × 24.3 cm (15 7/8 × 9 9/16 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-676

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