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Drawing, Design for Cresting of a Comb

This is a Drawing. It is dated ca. 1810 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and brown ink, brush and watercolor on white laid paper, laid down. 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

12.5 × 17.7 cm (4 15/16 × 6 15/16 in.)

It has the following markings

Watermark: upper part of watermark: bird in circle

It is inscribed

Inscribed in pen and ink, upper right: III

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for Cresting of a Comb; Italy; pen and brown ink, brush and watercolor on white laid paper, laid down; 12.5 × 17.7 cm (4 15/16 × 6 15/16 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-685

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