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Drawing, Sample Sheet, Two Designs for Cups and Saucers

This is a Drawing. It is dated ca. 1825 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is brush and gray, yellow, brown watercolor on cream 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

34.4 × 21.2 cm (13 9/16 × 8 3/8 in.)

It has the following markings

Watermark: in a vertical row a Mercury cup, two crossed scourges, a French horn, ovoidal lines which connect respectively from the two latter motifs and which below form a monogram of C (?) E R

Cite this object as

Drawing, Sample Sheet, Two Designs for Cups and Saucers; Italy; brush and gray, yellow, brown watercolor on cream paper; 34.4 × 21.2 cm (13 9/16 × 8 3/8 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-734

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