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1985

  • Work on this object began.

1991

1992

  • We acquired this object.

2015

2025

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Drawing, Day Bed Design

This is a Drawing. It is dated 1985 and we acquired it in 1992. Its medium is felt-tip pen, and black ink support: white wove paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Gift of Sir Hugh Casson.

  • Headboard
  • chased and cut steel, brass, pierced copper over carved and joined teak wood.
  • Lent by Bryn Mawr College.
  • 5.2012.1

Its dimensions are

29.5 x 20.9 cm (11 5/8 x 8 1/4 in.) Mat: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in.)

Cite this object as

Drawing, Day Bed Design; England; felt-tip pen, and black ink support: white wove paper; 29.5 x 20.9 cm (11 5/8 x 8 1/4 in.) Mat: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in.); Gift of Sir Hugh Casson; 1992-83-1

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Cooper-Hewitt Collections: A Design Resource.

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