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Drawing, Design for the Painted Decoration of the Walls and Ceiling of a Living Room

This is a Drawing. It is dated 1820 and we acquired it in 1940. Its medium is brush and gouache, graphite on rough 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

35.4 × 25.5 cm (13 15/16 × 10 1/16 in.)

It has the following markings

Stamp in black ink, upper left: Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration; Verso: Stamp of Christian Hammer, Stockholm, Lugt 1237

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite, lower left: B. Lucas; verso: B. Lucas

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for the Painted Decoration of the Walls and Ceiling of a Living Room; England; brush and gouache, graphite on rough paper; 35.4 × 25.5 cm (13 15/16 × 10 1/16 in.); Museum purchase from the Mary Hearn Greims Fund; 1940-21-8

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