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Drawing, Textile Design: Benares

This is a Drawing. It was designed by Maria Weissenberg and made for Wiener Werkstätte. It is dated 1919 and we acquired it in 1988. Its medium is brush and gouache on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds.

Its dimensions are

5.4 × 21 cm (2 1/8 × 8 1/4 in.) Mat: 31.8 × 45.1 cm (12 1/2 × 17 3/4 in.)

It has the following markings

Stamped in red ink, lower right: WIENER / WERK / STÄTTE

It is inscribed

Inscribed in blue crayon, upper right: 46

Cite this object as

Drawing, Textile Design: Benares; Designed by Maria Weissenberg (Austrian, b. 1897, active early 20th century); Made for Wiener Werkstätte (Austria); brush and gouache on paper; 5.4 × 21 cm (2 1/8 × 8 1/4 in.) Mat: 31.8 × 45.1 cm (12 1/2 × 17 3/4 in.); Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds; 1988-62-1328

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