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Drawing, Design for 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, graphite 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
8.9 × 10.8 cm (3 1/2 × 4 1/4 in.)
It has the following markings
Watermark: the greater part of an escutcheon, with above two torches behind it; in the dexter part a lily [?] above a cross and [?] in the sinister part below three stars and [?]
It is inscribed
Inscribed in pen and brown ink, bottom center: 400
Cite this object as
Drawing, Design for a Comb; Italy; pen and brown ink, brush and watercolor, graphite on white laid paper, laid down; 8.9 × 10.8 cm (3 1/2 × 4 1/4 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-700
