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Drawing, Design for Stained Glass Window

This is a Drawing. It is dated 1866 and we acquired it in 1948. Its medium is brush and wash and white gouache, pen and black ink, graphite on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase through gift of Jacques Seligmann.

Its dimensions are

55.1 × 31.3 cm (21 11/16 × 12 5/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in pen and black ink on ribbon below panel, lower left: EX DONO ELENAE TWISTLETON; on ribbon below panel, lower right: OPUS AD FINEM PERDUCTUM 1866

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for Stained Glass Window; brush and wash and white gouache, pen and black ink, graphite on paper; 55.1 × 31.3 cm (21 11/16 × 12 5/16 in.); Museum purchase through gift of Jacques Seligmann; 1948-24-26

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