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Drawing, Textile Design: Orpheus
This is a Drawing. It was designed by Dagobert Peche and made for Wiener Werkstätte. It is dated 1911–13 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
5.7 × 12.1 cm (2 1/4 × 4 3/4 in.) Mat: 31.4 × 45.1 cm (12 3/8 × 17 3/4 in.)
It has the following markings
Stamped in red ink, lower right: WIENER / WERK / STÄTTE
It is inscribed
Inscribed in black ink, upper left: ORFBEVS" [sic]
Cite this object as
Drawing, Textile Design: Orpheus; Designed by Dagobert Peche (Austrian, 1887–1923, active Vienna, 1911–1923); Made for Wiener Werkstätte (Austria); Austria; brush and gouache on paper; 5.7 × 12.1 cm (2 1/4 × 4 3/4 in.) Mat: 31.4 × 45.1 cm (12 3/8 × 17 3/4 in.); Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds; 1988-62-709
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Glass of the Avant-Garde: From Vienna Secession to Bauhaus.
