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Drawing, Design for a Reliquary Monstrance

This is a Drawing. It is dated 1740–70 and we acquired it in 1940. Its medium is red, black chalk, brush and watercolors, white gouache 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

57.5 × 40 cm (22 5/8 × 15 3/4 in.)

It has the following markings

Watermark: probably a name; stamp in black ink, upper right: Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite, lower left: O. Z. 29. AB

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Reliquary Monstrance; Germany; red, black chalk, brush and watercolors, white gouache on paper; 57.5 × 40 cm (22 5/8 × 15 3/4 in.); Museum purchase from the Mary Hearn Greims Fund; 1940-21-6

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