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Drawing, Design for a Fountain

This is a Drawing. It was created by Charles-François Hutin. It is dated ca. 1776 and we acquired it in 1940. Its medium is pen and ink, brush and gray watercolor, black chalk, graphite on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase from the Mary Hearn Greims Fund.

Its dimensions are

17.6 x 44.6 cm (6 15/16 x 17 9/16 in.)

It has the following markings

Watermark: L W and strasburg lily with hanging 4; below: I C V or W

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite, upper right: C. Hutin del., 176 Thaler; inscribed in 18th-century hand, verso: No. 8 Charles Hutin; in a later hand, verso lower right: Med Au

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Fountain; Charles-François Hutin (French, 1715 - 1776); France; pen and ink, brush and gray watercolor, black chalk, graphite on paper; 17.6 x 44.6 cm (6 15/16 x 17 9/16 in.); Museum purchase from the Mary Hearn Greims Fund; 1940-21-16

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