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Drawing, Design for a Triumphal Arch in Honor of the Polish General Skrzynecki

This is a Drawing. It was created by Josef Kornhäusel. It is dated 1831 and we acquired it in 1940. Its medium is brush and watercolor, pen and ink, graphite on blue paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.


General Skrzynecki (1787-1860) was for a brief time Commander-in-Chief of the Revolutionary Polish Army.

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

Its dimensions are

48.9 × 69 cm (19 1/4 × 27 3/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite, verso, upper left: VI b; upper right: 12; center: Kornhäusel

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Triumphal Arch in Honor of the Polish General Skrzynecki; Josef Georg Kornhäusel (Austrian, 1782 - 1860); Austria; brush and watercolor, pen and ink, graphite on blue paper; 48.9 × 69 cm (19 1/4 × 27 3/16 in.); Museum purchase from the Mary Hearn Greims Fund; 1940-21-4

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