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Drawing, Design for a Garden

This is a Drawing. It was designed by Jan David Zocher the Younger. It is dated 1856 and we acquired it in 1988. Its medium is pen and brown ink, brush and watercolor on cream paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase through bequest of Ida McNeil in memory of Lincoln C. McNeil and Catherine McNeil.

Its dimensions are

32.4 x 38.4 cm (12 3/4 x 15 1/8 in.)

It is signed

Signed in red ink, lower center: Zocher 1856

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Garden; Designed by Jan David Zocher the Younger (1791–1870); Netherlands; pen and brown ink, brush and watercolor on cream paper; 32.4 x 38.4 cm (12 3/4 x 15 1/8 in.); Museum purchase through bequest of Ida McNeil in memory of Lincoln C. McNeil and Catherine McNeil; 1988-76-1

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